Securing Nigeria’s future: Urgent economic recovery and resilience strategies

Abstract

COVID-19 has shown and exacerbated health, social and economic vulnerabilities in Nigeria, just like in most other emerging nations of the world. With long-standing economic issues that predate the pandemic in Nigeria, this paper examines ways by which opportunities brought about by the pandemic in the form of social, technological, and environmental benefits could be adapted for reversing shocks and building resilience for a post-pandemic environment. The impact of the pandemic and the recommendations that follow in this paper were developed around key economic agents such as the individual (household), firms, institutions and the government.