@techreport{discovery10083478,
          series = {Urbanisation Research Nigeria (URN) Research Report},
           title = {Urban Industrial Development and Business-Civic Leadership in Nigeria},
            note = {This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
       publisher = {ICF International},
       booktitle = {Urbanisation Research Nigeria (URN)},
         address = {London, UK},
           month = {March},
            year = {2018},
          author = {Makarem, N and Crighton, M and Aweto, T and Aliogo, R and Idobo, IP},
        keywords = {Industrial Development, Nigeria, Structural Transformation, Business-civic leadership, Organised private sector},
        abstract = {Nigeria has been striving to restructure and diversify its economy away from low-productivity agriculture and Oil \& Gas since its independence in 1960, and continues to do so today. The country has adopted contrasting development models - from import substitution industrialisation strategies in the 1960s and '70s, to deregulation and liberalisation since the 2000s, with a hybrid model in-between - yet the manufacturing sector continues to lag both in terms of size and productivity. Nigeria does however have several important factor endowments in its favour: its population of over 180 million and major urban centres offer local and foreign manufacturers access to a large home market, its agricultural and mining sectors offer primary inputs into manufacturing processes, over 200 higher education institutions and a large international diaspora have the potential of supplying industry with educated and skilled human capital and entrepreneurship, and revenues from Oil \& Gas can offer the "leg-up" that poorer economies need to lay the foundations for economic development while offering social support. This research report provides an economic analysis of Nigeria's national and urban/regional economies, and in-depth case studies of three regional industrial corridors with a focus on strategically selected tradable industries, the business climate, governance processes and business-civic leadership.},
             url = {https://www.icf.com/}
}