The International Monetary Fund has projected an economic
growth of 2.5 per cent for Nigeria in 2021.
This is higher than the 1.5 per cent IMF’s 2021 forecast
earlier announced for the country in January.
The Washington-based institution made this known in its
April World Economic Outlook report obtained on Tuesday.
Nigeria exceeded recession as its Gross Domestic Product
recorded a slight growth of 0.11 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020,
according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics revealed in
February 2021.
The organisation also forecast a 3.4 percent growth for the
Sub-Saharan Africa region in 2021.
Part of the report read, “Following a sharp drop in 2020,
only a mild and multispeed recovery is expected in Latin America and the
Caribbean in 2021. Thanks to the global manufacturing rebound in the second
half of 2020, growth exceeded expectations in some large exporting countries in
the region (for example, Argentina, Brazil, Peru) bringing the 2021 forecast to
4.6 percent (a 1 percentage point revision).
“The longer-term outlook continues to depend on the path of
the pandemic, however. With some exceptions (for example, Chile, Costa Rica,
Mexico), most countries have not secured enough vaccines to cover their
populations.
“Moreover, 2021 projections for the tourism-dependent
Caribbean economies have been revised down by 1.5 percentage points to 2.4 percent.
The pandemic continues to exact a large toll on sub-Saharan Africa (especially,
for example, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa). Following the largest
contraction ever for the region (–1.9 percent in 2020), growth is expected to
rebound to 3.4 percent in 2021, significantly lower than the trend anticipated
before the pandemic. Tourism-reliant economies will likely be the most
affected.”
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