{"id":33923,"date":"2019-08-16T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=33923"},"modified":"2019-08-16T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T10:45:40","slug":"nigeria-in-weaker-position-to-defend-self-against-economic-shock-moodys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nigeria-in-weaker-position-to-defend-self-against-economic-shock-moodys\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria In Weaker Position To Defend Self Against Economic Shock -Moody’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the trade war between the two largest economies in the world, the United States of America and China, threatens to cause another recession, credit rating firm, Moody’s says the Nigerian economy is too weak to make spending cuts if another shock hits.<\/p>\n

The agency added that the falling prices of raw materials like crude oil, and weak investor confidence will increase the cost of borrowing for these economies in the near future.<\/p>\n

In a statement made available to SaharaReporters, the topmost rating\u00a0agency explained that cutting expenditure was easier than raising revenue in the event of an economic crisis and the Nigerian economy does not have much flexibility in implementing such a move at present.<\/p>\n

Moody’s said Nigeria was burdened by a lot of interest payment on debts \u2014 mandatory expenditure.<\/p>\n

In the analysis of financial data from 17 sub-Saharan African countries, the rating agency said, \u201cNigeria and Gabon have relatively less flexibility to cut spending; in Nigeria, we capture only sending at the federal government level, where interest makes up a relatively\u00a0large share of total spending, while the relatively low degree of spending flexibility reflects past fiscal consolidation which was skewed toward discretionary spendings \u2014 such as capital expenditure. In Gabon, less flexibility to cut spending today reflects the composition of past fiscal consolidation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moody’s noted that all the countries in focus were at weaker starting positions, in defending themselves against a recession. It attributes this to an increase in public debts by the 17 economies.<\/p>

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\u201cAs debt burdens are now higher than just five years ago, SSA sovereigns are more vulnerable to future shocks and have less capacity to employ countercyclical fiscal policy to absorb future shocks,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The agency added that the falling prices of raw materials like crude\u00a0oil, and weak investor confidence will increase the cost of borrowing for these economies in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe region’s governments face a number of possible negative fiscal shocks a slowdown in global growth could be more severe than we currently expect, with a possible negative impact on some commodity\u00a0prices, and fragile investor confidence threatens to raise sharply the cost of already much less affordable debt for some sovereigns,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n

Based on its findings, Moody’s said Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Rwanda, were best placed to cut back on spending if a shock wave hit them.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the extreme are Namibia, Mauritius, South Africa, and Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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