Nigeria's economic transformation: good naira management can build competitiveness
    Key messages   Improved  competitiveness, in part through the real effective exchange rate, can  transform the structure of a country’s domestic production.  An  overvalued naira is functioning as an export tax and challenging  Nigeria’s economic transformation and diversification away from the oil  sector.  Learning from Indonesia and other countries,  devaluations can be an effective currency intervention to allow  diversification for economic transformation.    Competitiveness as a precursor to transformation  Economic  transformation often denotes a move away from low-productivity to  high-productivity growth. Promoting economic transformation in the  aftermath of shocks is one strategy for developing economies to build  resilience to further shocks. This is particularly true for resource  dependent economies, given that they are more vulnerable to shocks. Many  of these countries are still managing the fallout from multiple  economic shocks, including the continued effects of ...