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Finansminister Kemi Adeosun. Nigeriansk man som räknar pengar. Arkivbilder. (TT)

Jakt på skattefuskare ska få fart på Nigerias ekonomi

Skattesmitare som inte utnyttjar den pågående amnestin i Nigeria ska åtalas. Det säger landets finansminister Kemi Adeosun till Bloomberg. En del som ertappats har svarat och sagt ”lycka till med det här, fånga oss om ni kan”, säger ministern.

I Nigeria ligger skatteintäkterna på blott 6 procent av landets BNP, bland den lägsta nivån i världen. Nu hoppas Kemi Adeosun dubblera intäkterna till år 2020, skriver nyhetsbyrån. Pengarna behövs bland annat för att täcka infrastruktursatsningar på motsvarande närmare 200 miljarder kronor.

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Kemi Adeosun
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Kemi Adeosun (born 9 March 1967) has been the Minister of Finance of Nigeria since 11 November 2015.
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Nigerias ekonomi
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Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market, with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology and entertainment sectors. It is ranked as the 21st-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the 20th-largest in terms of purchasing power parity. It is the largest economy in Africa; its re-emergent manufacturing sector became the largest on the continent in 2013, and it produces a large proportion of goods and services for the West African subcontinent. In addition, the debt-to-GDP ratio is 11 percent, which is 8 percent below the 2012 ratio. Previously hindered by years of mismanagement, economic reforms of the past decade have put Nigeria back on track towards achieving its full economic potential. Nigerian GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) has almost tripled from $170 billion in 2000 to $451 billion in 2012, although estimates of the size of the informal sector (which is not included in official figures) put the actual numbers closer to $630 billion. Correspondingly, the GDP per capita doubled from $1400 per person in 2000 to an estimated $2,800 per person in 2012 (again, with the inclusion of the informal sector, it is estimated that GDP per capita hovers around $3,900 per person). (Population increased from 120 million in 2000 to 160 million in 2010). These figures were to be revised upwards by as much as 80% when metrics were to be recalculated subsequent to the rebasing of its economy in April 2014. Although oil revenues contribute 2/3 of state revenues, oil only contributes about 9% to the GDP. Nigeria produces only about 2.7% of the world's oil supply (in comparison, Saudi Arabia produces 12.9%, Russia produces 12.7% and the United States produces 8.6%). Although the petroleum sector is important, as government revenues still heavily rely on this sector, it remains a small part of the country's overall economy. The largely subsistence agricultural sector has not kept up with rapid population growth, and Nigeria, once a large net exporter of food, now imports some of its food products, though mechanization has led to a resurgence in manufacturing and exporting of food products, and the move towards food sufficiency. In 2006, Nigeria successfully convinced the Paris Club to let it buy back the bulk of its debts owed to them for a cash payment of roughly US$12 billion. According to a Citigroup report published in February 2011, Nigeria will get the highest average GDP growth in the world between 2010 and 2050. Nigeria is one of two countries from Africa among 11 Global Growth Generators countries.
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