COVID-19 pandemic exposed Nigeria’s policy weaknesses – Prof Akpan Ekpo
Commenting on the structural imbalance in the nation’s economy and options open to the government to correct the defects and achieve a well-structured productive and export-driven economy, a seasoned economist, Prof. Akpan Hogan Ekpo, noted that COVID-19 pandemic had impacted negatively on the economy when assessed from the massive job loss, increased inflation, instability in the exchange rate regime, declining growth, social vices, anger and hunger it had triggered.
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