New Quarterly Launched in Nigeria

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has just launched Economic Policy Watch, a quarterly publication that charts new developments in Nigeria's economic policy reform process and addresses current economic issues. Topics addressed in the first issue and in coming issues include:

• Coming to grips with the Federal government budget
• Implementation of Nigeria's Vision 2010 Report
• Privatization
• Competition policy
• Small- and medium-sized enterprise development
• Job creation
• Export incentives
• Taxation
• Port reform

Support for the project comes from CIPE, with funding provided by the National Endowment for Democracy. Economic Policy Watch is part of a larger effort to contribute to democratic change in Nigeria and to move toward a market economy by developing chambers of commerce, advancing business advocacy, and promoting public awareness of the role of the entrepreneur in policymaking.

(More information on NACCIMA and its leadership can be found in Issue 2 of Overseas Report located on CIPE's web site www.cipe.org/pub/overseas9804