Reforming the Unreformable
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Reforming the Unreformable

Lessons from Nigeria

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eBook - ePub

Reforming the Unreformable

Lessons from Nigeria

About this book

Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and began to reform the unreformable. This book tells the story of how a dedicated and politically committed team of reformers set out to fix a series of broken institutions, and in the process repositioned Nigeria's economy in ways that helped create a more diversified springboard for steadier long-term growth.

The author, Harvard- and MIT-trained economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, currently Nigeria's Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance and formerly Managing Director of the World Bank, played a crucial part in her country's economic reforms. In Nigeria's Debt Management Office, and later as Minister of Finance, she spearheaded negotiations with the Paris Club that led to the wiping out of $30 billion of Nigeria's external debt, 60 percent of which was outright cancellation. Reforming the Unreformable offers an insider's view of those debt negotiations; it also details the fight against corruption and the struggle to implement a series of macroeconomic and structural reforms.

This story of development economics in action, written from the front lines of economic reform in Africa, offers a unique perspective on the complex and uncertain global economic environment.

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Information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780262304542
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 Setting the Stage for Reform
  9. 2 Advancing Macroeconomic Reforms
  10. 3 Promoting Privatization, Deregulation, and Liberalization
  11. 4 Launching Other Structural Reforms
  12. 5 Fighting Corruption
  13. 6 Obtaining Debt Relief
  14. 7 Reflections on the Reforms and Lessons for Reformers
  15. 8 Conclusions and a Look Forward
  16. Appendix: Figures and Tables
  17. References
  18. About the Author
  19. Index