A messy oil change: Nigeria’s fraught reforms
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Axing generous fuel subsidies was just one necessary reform promised by Bola Tinubu. A hundred days into the president’s term, we examine his ideas for change—finding they do not seem to be backed by real plans. Our correspondent says India’s decrepit cities would fare better if permitted to govern themselves more (09:58). And the kinder, gentler trend in video games (17:13)
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| 0:45.3 | India has 59 cities with a population over a million, |
| 0:49.5 | but most of them are decrepit, overcrowded, |
| 0:52.0 | and unlikely to be the engines of growth the country needs. |
| 0:55.7 | Our correspondent says letting cities look after themselves a bit |
| 0:59.0 | would help a lot. |
| 1:02.3 | And if I asked you to think of a video game there are reasonable odds, |
| 1:06.3 | you'd think of some violent first-person shooter affair. |
| 1:10.0 | But there's a kinder, gentler trend in gaming. |
| 1:12.8 | Turns out even the game's developers are getting tired of all that killing. |
| 1:22.9 | First up though. |
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