Reports and Papers

The information communication technology (ICT) sector in Nigeria has experienced rapid growth over the past 15 years, yet the development in leveraging ICT has been uneven across different regions in the country. Technology is an integral part of a thriving innovation ecosystem, serving both as an input (e.g., creating access to information and resources) [..]Read more...

This short note reports results from a survey taken in 2016 of individuals who applied in 2011 to the first round of the YouWiN! business plan competition. These individuals had been previously interviewed in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and the data used to estimate the impact of winning the competition over this time horizon. The [..]Read more...

The modal firm size in most developing countries is one worker, consisting of only the owner of the firm. Among the firms that do hire additional workers, most hire fewer than 10. Hsieh and Olken (2014, p.93) report that in India and Indonesia “the fraction of firms with less than 10 workers is almost [..]Read more...

Single Window is a trade facilitation tool which when deployed inevitably results in significant improvement in the time and cost of carrying out cross- border trade. As such, when implemented in developed countries, which suffer from large number of non-tariff barriers, the benefits are accrued quickly. In Nigeria, the employment of ICT solutions operated [..]Read more...

In the global port community, concessioning is seen as a means of reducing public infrastructural deficit, engendered by the disproportionate growth in population and the available resources for national development. Since government cannot do it alone, private investors have to become involved as public private partnerships, (PPP). Public and private infrastructural developments have become a [..]Read more...