Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-general of the World Trade Organisation, said Nigeria needs to move beyond macroeconomic stabilisation and focus squarely on job creation by deliberately courting global investment and supply chains.
Speaking Wednesday at a fireside chat at Nigeria House on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum(WEF) in Davos, Okonjo-Iweala said recent reforms underway in Africa’s most populous economy are positive but must translate into employment and productive investment.
“Some good reforms are being pursued right now, but they need to yield to job creation,” she said. “I’ve said to the president that we have to move from stabilisation to creating jobs because that’s where we are.”
