Who’s Afraid of Saving Money? The Political Economy of Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund

Nigeria's sovereign wealth fund has the important objective of addressing critical issues in relation to the Nigerian economy and is, perhaps, the most important fiscal initiative from the Nigerian federal government in the last decade. The debate on how to sustainably manage Nigeria’s sovereign wealth has been raging for about a decade and a half. In all this time, the central question has not changed: can the federal government unilaterally decide to save money on behalf of all the Nigeria
 

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