Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146201 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/9
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted in significant progress that includes unbundling and privatization of the long-standing government-owned monopoly in the power sector. The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the reform, isolating the major challenges facing it, and focusing on political economy developments surrounding regulatory, institutional, legislative, and fiscal issues, with mainstreaming clean renewable energy being the main theme running through the analysis.
Subjects: 
Nigeria
political economy
power sector reform
privatization
renewable energy
JEL: 
L94
L98
Q43
Q48
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-052-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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