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Economic Associates (EA) will host one-day open-enrolment quarterly conference series on Nigeria’s Economic Outlook in June 2022 as follows:

• Lagos: Thursday, 23 June 2022, at Lagos Continental Hotel, Plot 52A, Kofo Abayomi Street, VI
• Abuja: Tuesday 28 June 2022, at The Envoy Hotel, 305 Diplomatic Drive, CBD

EA conferences provide rich opportunities to:

• Assess vulnerabilities at national, subnational, and corporate levels to unfolding global realities.
• Evaluate realignment options at national, subnational, sectoral, and corporate strategies with realities.

Major take-aways from the quarterly updates include:

• Illuminating guides on how to factor evolving shifts in global income flows and wealth stocks into local strategies.
• Fresh evidence on national, subnational, sectoral, and corporate vulnerabilities to unfolding global realities.
• Insightful options for rejuvenating income flows and wealth stocks at country, state, sectoral, and corporate levels.
• Plausible forecasts and scenarios for country, states, sectors, and companies in run up to the 2023 elections and beyond.

This conference will discuss evolving global trends and explore options for realigning strategic aspirations with them.

Sub-Themes

1. Global Trend Shifts

1. Trend Shifts in Global Transactions: Commodity Prices and Export Earnings Headwinds
2. Trend Shifts in Global Portfolios: Global Equity Prices and Inward FDI Stocks Tailwinds
3. Trend Shifters: The Three Mega-Drivers: Innovations, Innovators, Liquidity
4. Trend Signals: Leading, Lagging, & Coincident Indicators of Economic Conditions

2. National Vulnerabilities

1. Liquidity
   1. Sovereign Fiscal Solvency
   2. Systemic Money/Bonds/Equity/Forex Adequacy
2. Stability
   1. Exchange Rate/Consumer Prices
   2. Interest Rates
3. Growth
   1. Nominal, Real, Per Capita Growth
   2. Employment/Unemployment/Underemployment
4. Socio-Political Harmony
   1. Poverty/Inequality/Peace/Safety/Security Narratives
   2. Human Capital Index/Elite Quality Index Narratives

National Realignment Options: mitigating deindustrialization headwinds; riding on financialization tailwinds

3.  Subnational Vulnerabilities

1. Fiscal Solvency
   1. Income Statement: Declining Revenue and Rising Debt Costs
   2. Balance Sheet: Optimizing Portfolio of Debt, Equity, and Assets
2. Physical Capital Productivity
   1. Amenitizing Hot Spots
   2. Eliminating Dark Spots
3. Value Chain Efficiency
   1. Fat Returns to Up/Downstreamness
   2. Slim Returns to Midstreamness
4. Human Capital Quality
   1. Low Social-Return Skills
   2. High Social-Return Skills

Subnational Realignment Options: solvency-based, place-based, value chain-based, skill-based interventions to the rescue

4. Corporate Vulnerabilities

1. Revenue Headwinds
2. Assets Tailwinds

2. Surging Innovative Sectors: Place-Based, Space-Based, Skill-Based

Corporate Realignment Options: mitigating deindustrialization headwinds; riding on financialization tailwinds

EA now offers three mutually reinforcing modalities for updating and refining tacit notions about the context and outlook of economic decisions:

1. The open-enrolment conferences on Nigeria’s Economic Outlook offer decision makers opportunities to engage external peers, with varied backgrounds and aspirations, on the latest developments in global, national, sub-national, sectoral, and corporate spheres, and refine notions they hold about the best adaptive responses to unfolding realities.
2. Insights from our conferences are now codified in subscription report on Nigeria’s Economic Outlook for wider circulation among decisionmakers who desire reference documents for guiding strategy.
3. The insights from our conferences and reports are available for in-house presentations to decisionmakers who wish to assimilate them into their strategies.

Please find the conference brochure containing the full agenda and reservation form attached.