The Global Economic Crisis and Nigeria:
Taking the Right Lessons, Avoiding the Wrong Lessons

This book is fruit of a National Policy Symposium - Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Taking the Right Lessons and Avoiding the Wrong Lessons, held in 2009, at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. The Symposium was an effort to give conceptual form and evidence-based perspective to the national public discourse on the global economic crisis and its implications for Nigeria’s economic planning and management. At the symposium it was seen clearly that he ideas and lessons canvassed there needed to be more widely disseminated in an enduring manner.

The book will enlighten government and private sector managers, civil society actors and development practitioners. It will sensitise stakeholders towards advocating for analysis-based responses to the global economic crisis. As one of the few organised analyses on the global economic crisis and Nigeria, this book will enhance the quality of public discourse on the appropriate policy responses. For policy advocacy purposes, this book serves as an evidence tool. Policymakers and technocrats will find the book as a useful and handy reference material. It will also serve as an important learning and reference material for professionals, scholars, teachers and students.