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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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CBN strategizes for COVID-19 second wave, fixing economy (Daily Trust)

December 23, 2020


Daily Trust (Nigeria) published an article stating that the Nigerian GDP had a second consecutive quarter of a downturn no thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic which saw the federal government adopting several measures which included a lockdown of Lagos, Ogun as well as the Federal Capital Territory, leading to the disruption of the movement of goods and services as well as production. In a recent IFPRI paper, COVID-19 lockdowns are imposing substantial economic costs on countries in Africa, analyzed the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, estimate that during the lockdown periods, Nigeria’s GDP suffered a 34.1 percent loss due to COVID-19, amounting to USD 16 billion, with two-thirds of the losses coming from the services sector. 

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