## Nigeria: Technical Assistance Report-Additional Spending Toward Sustainable Development Goals

_IMF Staff Country Reports, June 15, 2020_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: June 15, 2020
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513545202.002

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### Executive summary and purpose
- The report constitutes technical advice provided by IMF staff to the authorities of Nigeria in response to their request for technical assistance.
- Objective: assess additional spending associated with making substantial progress along the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on critical areas of human and physical capital.
- Context: Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country and its largest economy; the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017–2020 gives prominence to economic, social and environmental issues.

### Major findings and assessments
- The report documents progress to date for each sector, assesses Nigeria relative to peers, highlights challenges, and estimates the spending required to make substantial SDG progress.
- Nigeria has shown gradual improvements in education.
- The additional spending estimated is characterized as relatively large, suggesting that a gradual and strategic approach should be considered.

### Focus areas and thematic coverage
- Human capital: education, health, population and demographics, health care spending, healthcare system, insurance system.
- Physical capital: infrastructure elements such as electricity consumption and road density are referenced among keywords.
- Public finance lens: public expenditure review, expenditure and spending estimates expressed in Purchased Power Parity dollar terms (keyword present).

### Policy orientation and implications
- Emphasis on unlocking the potential of a rapidly growing population through substantial improvements in human and physical capital.
- Recommendation implied: adopt a gradual and strategic approach to scaling up spending given the size of additional financing needs.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subjects: Development, Education, Expenditure, Health, Health care spending, Population and demographics, Public expenditure review, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- Keywords: Africa, authority, CR, electricity consumption, Global, Health care spending, healthcare system, IMF staff calculation, insurance system, ISCR, Nigeria, Public expenditure review, Purchased Power Parity dollar, road density, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

*International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. "Nigeria: Technical Assistance Report-Additional Spending Toward Sustainable Development Goals", IMF Staff Country Reports 2020, 177 (2020).*

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