01841cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006094 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451873658 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Obiora, Kingsley. Do Trading Partners Still Matter for Nigeria's Growth? : A Contribution to the Debateon Decoupling and Spillovers / Kingsley Obiora. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (30 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Should policymakers still be concerned about economic growth in trading partners? Have developing and emerging market countries decoupled from the US enough to grow despite significant recession in the US? Using VAR models, this paper addresses these questions for Nigeria in the context of the global crisis. The results seem to debunk the "decoupling theory" and suggest there are still significant spillovers from Nigeria's main trading partners, including the US, with trade and commodity price linkages being the dominant transmission channels. Given the sharp fall in both trade financing and commodity prices in aftermath of the crisis, these results provide some explanation to the realization of adverse second-round effects in Nigeria. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/218 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/218/001.2009.issue-218-en.xml IMF e-Library