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Publication Date: October 1989
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Michael Johns
Research Area: Government
Keywords: Middle East
Type: Report
Abstract:
The U.S. has an important role to play in encouraging economic development and democracy in Nigeria. The U.S. should use agencies such as the National Endowment for Democracy and the United States Information Agency to strengthen Nigeria’s democratic infrastructure, and urge Babangida to continue his impressive free market reforms.The U.S. should assist the Nigerian government in devising market-oriented solutions to retire the country’s foreign debt. Finally, the U.S. should praise the Nigerian government as an emerging bastion of freedom and democracy in authoritarian-ridden Africa, and reward it with increased economic assistance as it passes milestones on the road to democracy in 1992