Economic Summits and Developmental State

Economic Summits and Developmental State.

Economic Summits and Developmental State Kayode Komolafe With the 2027 general elections in view, perhaps no political party or candidate would deny the urgency of the theme of the 32nd Nigerian Economic Summit: “Growth That Kayode Komolafe With the 2027 general elections in view, perhaps no political party or candidate would deny the urgency of the theme of the 32nd Nigerian Economic Summit: “Growth That Works: Delivering Jobs, Productivity and Shared Prosperity.” The differences, if any, would probably arise over the strategies and tactics required to achieve these central economic objectives.

At the risk of sounding repetitive on this page, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), an eminent think tank and ad-vocacy forum, deserves lavish commendation.

It has sustained for over three decades, an important platform for public-private sector dialogue on the Nigerian economy.

Indeed, the NESG remains one of the enduring examples of how sections of the Nigerian elite can forge a consensus around the imperative of harvesting ideas for national development. In a sense, the theme of the 32nd Summit of NESG is a derivative of the economic objectives already enshrined in the Chapter II of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Paradoxically, this is hardly acknowledged by our economic experts and pundits. Some of the participants at the summit which ended yesterday might even contest this assertion.

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