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Nigeria - Country Strategy Paper 2020-2024

This report presents the Bank Group’s Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Nigeria for the period 2020-2024. The report has been developed in the context of Nigeria’s new middle-income country (MIC) status amidst lingering challenges of security and fragility, slow growth, infrastructure deficit and low level of human capital development notably widespread poverty, high inequality and rising youth unemployment. The preparation of the report also coincides with the adoption of ‘ECO’ as the name of the regional currency by Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African State…