Tags: Africa | Capitalism | Freakonomics | International

Nigeria can be bold at diplomacy, as its offer of asylum to President Charles Taylor of Liberia demonstrates. It will require similar audacity if it is to turn its moribund economy around.

Nigeria is a paradigm of failed development. Average incomes are amongst the lowest in the world. Poverty is endemic, with more than three-quarters of Nigerians living on less than US$2 per day and distribution of income more skewed in favor of the rich than anywhere else in the world. The top 2% of Nigerians earn the same as the bottom 55% [...]

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