The Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane, has said Nigeria will require to grow its economy by at least seven to eight per cent annually, over a five-to-ten-year period, based on an investment-led strategy, to achieve a Gross Domestic Product level of $1.5trillion by 2030.
He said this in a paper titled “Building the Future of Nigeria through Enterprise and Innovation,” which he delivered at a public lecture organised by a Pan-Nigerian coalition, the Building the Future Forum, in Abuja, on Monday, 8th of March 2021. Rewane explained that while Nigeria has made some progress in terms of the ease of doing business, there was still a lot more work to be done for the nation to derive full benefits from its potential.
He said, “The issue however is not whether Nigeria has made some achievements and successes, but compared to its potential, Nigeria is still a laggard in many respects. Therefore, we have our work cut out for us and if we are going to achieve accelerated, sustainable and inclusive growth, we need to attract domestic and international capital with its attendant investment multiplier to achieve a GDP level of $1.5trn by 2030 when our population could be 250mn or more.
“We need to grow the economy at least at 7-8% a year for 5-10 years based on an investment-led strategy. If we fail to do this very soon, the problems of multidimensional poverty, debt, and insecurity may consume us in the next decade. Nigeria today has made remarkable achievements in the ease of doing business matrix. Nigeria is the leading country according to the Economist Pocket Book of Figures with 39.9% of its citizens either as nascent or direct entrepreneurs.”
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