Like many other regions, sub-Saharan Africa has not escaped from the phenomenon of rising youth unemployment. Young people make up slightly more than a third of the region’s total labour force but account for about 60% of total unemployment. In Nigeria, the continent’s most populous country, about 63% of the population is under 25. Unemployment...
Over the past decade, the thirst for fuel in emerging economies has mirrored their spectacular economic rise, shifting growth in demand for energy from the West to the East. The changing dynamics of energy demand have, in turn, affected the downstream petroleum sector, increasing the share of new investment flowing to emerging markets. Four out of...
As privatisation of Nigeria’s power sector evolves, one of the most pressing concerns will be that of risk guarantees. Given the stuttered progress in attracting investment to the sector prior to 2013, finding ways to reduce the risk profile of projects is considered important. The privatisation process has been designed with a reliance on...
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a claw-back clause. AMCON’s exposure to unsecured loans, a minority of assets purchased, was limited to 5% of face value. By the end of 2011, AMCON had accumulated a total notional amount of N4.2trn ($26.46bn) in NPLs, at a cost of N1.76trn ($11.09bn). This amounted to four times more NPLs than banks had disclosed in their regulatory filings, according to CBN data.
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