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Home – V3. Home – V3. Nonso Obikili obtained his PhD in Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2013. He is now a research associate at Economic Research Southern Africa in Cape Town.
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Refineries! Refineries! Refineries! | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. May 10, 2015. If I got N100 every time I heard the question, “How can a country blessed with one of the largest reserves of crude oil be importing fuel? Which of these industries does Nigeria have an advantage? Only one. The business of having crude oil. We have crude oil and many others don’t. Does Nigeria have an advantage in the business of getting crude oil out of the ground? So what is the plan? According to most th...
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. New Paper: The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa. June 7, 2016. New paper in the Economic History Review. Title: The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa. New working paper: Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors. May 17, 2016. Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors. Close but no cigar. May 11, 2016.
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Naira Struggles Part 3: The Impossible Trinity, Capital Controls and Multiple Markets | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. August 3, 2015. Naira Struggles Part 3: The Impossible Trinity, Capital Controls and Multiple Markets. This post is primarily about the Naira and its struggles and to help you get a better understanding of some of the actions the CBN has taken to halt the implied devaluation. First a few concepts to understand. Another example is if you had two countries also with fixed exchange rates, free capital controls and identical...
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July | 2015 | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. Monthly Archives: July 2015. Deconstructing Nigeria’s Automotive Policy. July 20, 2015. Judging good policy is therefore not dependent on only the positives but on a holistic examination of the positive effects and negative effects on social welfare. 99% of all policies will have positive and negative effects. Using only the positives to judge the success or failure is simply just wrong. 2 Capital Labour Ratio. In realit...
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August | 2014 | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. Monthly Archives: August 2014. Do political institutions matter? August 14, 2014. Its always interesting seeing something you read play out in real life. But who decides what the political institutions look like? And who determines the rules that are actually made? The ideal scenario is to have political power that is evenly distributed. Strong financial groups open to non-bank financial players countered by strong c...
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December | 2014 | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. Monthly Archives: December 2014. Understanding crony capitalism and why it’s probably bad for you. December 21, 2014. Well everyone who buys books. The banning of imported books will make books more expensive for everyone who buys books. So everyone who buys books will have to pay a bit more than they used to. [If it were cheaper then there would be no need for a ban.] Now who wins? Not that I’m accusing anyone of briber...
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Why pipeline vandalism is not an excuse | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. March 10, 2015. Why pipeline vandalism is not an excuse. Word on the streets is that the power situation has not improved. As at two weeks ago it had dropped to about 3,063.23MW capacity. The power ministry website says it was 3,575.85MW on the 8th of March although this is still way below the “high” of about 4500MW in December of 2012. What is the official excuse? Next post →. Nonso Obikili’s Blog. Young Nigerians creat...
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March | 2015 | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. Monthly Archives: March 2015. Why pipeline vandalism is not an excuse. March 10, 2015. Pipeline vandalism. In the words of the power minister;. 8220;Vandalism is affecting our capacity to generate electricity. We are hoping that in the next two weeks, with the other pipelines that are being repaired and the ones that are being serviced are put in use, we will have been back to, an even beyond where we are . March 8, 2015.
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August | 2015 | Nonso Obikili's Blog
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Nonso Obikili's Blog. Just another Nigerian Economics weblog. Useful Data and Links. Monthly Archives: August 2015. Naira Struggles Part 4: Blast from the Past. August 10, 2015. From my last post you can get a sense of what was happening. The government allowed the currency to strengthen, stuck with a low interest rate and at the same time reduced inflation. This was only feasible because there were lots of capital inflows from oil sales. According to Pinto (1987),. All sounds very familiar doesn’t it?
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