NISER’s aims include:
- to provide consultancy services to the Federal and State Governments, their agencies and organisations, in the field of economic and social development
- to conduct research into the economic and social problems of the country with a view to the applications of the results thereof
- to organise seminars and conferences on problems of economic and social development in the country, whether on its own accounts or on behalf of the government of Nigeria or their agencies
- to cooperate with Nigerian universities, research institutes and other institutions in the mobilisation of the country’s research potential for the task of national development and dissemination of research findings for the use of policy makers at all levels.
The website has lists of publications from NISER, including contents and abstracts from its journal, Research for Development.