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REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Volume 48, Issue 169, Pages 442-451Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2021.1931830
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The administrative fight against Covid-19 in Nigeria has been hindered by disconnects between federal and state governments, leading to a lack of coordinated containment response. This has worsened the conflicts in intergovernmental fiscal relations.
This briefing explores how the administrative fight against Covid-19 in Nigeria, particularly the conflictual political economy of federalism in this mono-product/oil-dependent economy, has shaped the making and implementation of virus containment policies and strategies. The analysis shows that the disconnects between the federal and state governments have blocked a harmonised and coordinated containment response. Instead, the measures to manage the pandemic have worsened the already highly conflictual - as well as dependent and centripetal - intergovernmental fiscal relations between federal and state governments, and among state governments.
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