The Development of Nigerian Industrial Economy and the Prospects for U.S. Investment and Business Partnership

摘要

This comprehensive study of the Nigerian economy will help a businessman understand the import and contract policies of the Nigerian government, and points out likely areas of investment opportunity. The paper reviews Nigerian loan borrowing, money supply, revenue, national development plans, budgets, oil industry, banking, industrial growth, steel, automobile production, textiles, cement, breweries, transport, economic growth, and agriculture. The report then builds on the above basic data in outlining investment opportunities for U.S. business, starting with the incentives Nigeria has offered to foreign firms to invest in Nigeria. Sections in this chapter are devoted to farming, construction, poultry and cattle feed operations, petrochemicals, telecommunications, education, health care, electricity, consumer goods, control of foreign exchange, effects of indiginization, Nigerian partnership policies, Nigerian and American bi-lateral talks on economic problems, and long- and short-term outlook for investments.