NESG Essay Competition for African Undergraduate Students 2024

The essay competition on "Collaborative Action for Growth, Competitiveness, and Stability" invites participants to explore the interconnected dimensions of inclusive development, business dynamism, societal security, innovation, and stakeholder collaboration. Essays should discuss how fostering inclusive growth can drive competitiveness and stability, highlight the role of business dynamism in economic development, emphasize the importance of building a secure society, and examine how innovation and digital transformation can be ignited. Furthermore, participants should underscore the necessity of collaboration among stakeholders to achieve sustainable and equitable progress

Contest Topic: Collaborative action for growth, competItiveness and stability

• Table of Content
• About Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)
• NESG Essay Competition
• Aim and Benefits of NESG Essay Competition
• Requirements for NESG Essay Competition Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)

In 1993, a group of passionate and concerned private sector leaders representing key economic sectors conceived the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) and sustained it as a platform for bringing together private sector leaders and senior public sector officials to discuss and dialogue on the future of the Nigerian Economy. Three years later, in 1996, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) was established and incorporated as a non-profit, non-partisan private sector organisation with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into an open, private sector-led globally... continue reading

NESG Essay Competition

Aim and Benefits of NESG Essay Competition

• Top 3 Finalists
  • Internship/project grant
  • One year priority access to NESG policy briefs, research papers and macroeconomic outlook.
  • A certification of performance
• Top 10 Finalists
  • Access to NESG Learning Management System
• Top 50 Finalists
  • Virtual access to the 30th Anniversary

Requirements for NESG Essay Competition Qualification

• Entries must be African undergraduates in Tertiary Institutions
• Entries must be written in English Language and be the original work of the writer
• Only one (1) entry per participant is allowed
• The maximum word count is 1,500 per words
• Plagiarized and AI-generated entries will be disqualified.
• Referencing should be done using the APA style
• All entries should be submitted before midnight (WAT) on August 14, 2024.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit NESG website