Economic Performance: Ebonyi emerges first in South-East

Ebonyi has emerged first in the South-East and eight best state in economic performance.

The above is contained in the recent report released by Victor Mba, Consultant, Philips Consulting.

Accord¬ing to the report, which is ac¬cessible through the official website of Philip Consulting, “the result obtained used the following performance metrics: Internally gener¬ated revenue (IGR), literacy rate, ease of doing business, employment rate, per capita income, domestic debt level and external debt level and it is used for the overall rank¬ing of the states and the FCT.

According to a press state¬ment made available to Daily Independent by Special As-sistant to Governor David Umahi on Media, Francis Nweze, the report compares the states of Nigeria and the FCT, according to the follow¬ing economic endowment factors: Population size, number of mineral resourc¬es, number of international trade routes, availability of crude oil, domestic trade route, age and landmass.   (Daily Independent)