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ABSTRACT The study examined the Foreign Direct investment and poverty reduction in Nigeria and to examine if foreign direct investment has significant run impact on poverty reduction in Nigeria and to evaluate if there is any significant casualty between foreign direct investment and poverty reduction in Nigeria. Foreign direct investment (FDI) granger cause per capital income but PCI does not granger cause FDI. Thus, there was uni-directional causality lt the ...

ABSTRACT This study shows the performance of foreign direct investment on the manufacturing sector of the Nigeria economy. The study adopts a time series approach to the development of three different models namely; Manufacturing Value Added Model, Foreign direct investment, Interest rate and Gross fixed capital formation, from the year 1981 to 2015.The required data were collected from the central bank of Nigeria (CBN) 2015 statistical bulletin.  The econometric model of ...

ABSTRACT Government should provide an enabling environment for investment to be productive in Nigeria since real interest rate makes investment to go higher, that is investment is a kind of medium that links Investment and Economic growth. Secondly, Government should make policies both monetary and fiscal that will aid investment to be productive in other to be able to achieve the relationship between interest rate and economic growth and finally ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Unemployment has become so visible in the developed countries that the economist and politicians cannot do without seeking its causes and its alleviation. Naturally they wonder whether income distribution would be improved if only the unemployed were to be employed. Unemployment is no limited to labour but extended to all resources inputs, unemployment and employment often considered only in relation to labour, unemployment ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Human beings engage in various activities in order to satisfy their wants. In producing human wants (goods and services) land, labour and entrepreneur are utilized for these purposes. Labour being the most dynamic factor of production combines with the other factor to produce goods and services for consumption if fully utilized,, then there will be employment. Unemployment is a hazard of an industrialized economy ...

ABSTRACT The study examines the impact of inflation on economic growth of Nigeria. Other micro economic variable tested along with inflation in this study are Agriculture, manufacturing, and trade. In analyzing the data the simple percentage method was applied the empirical results demonstrated that there is a positive relationship between the dependent variable (agriculture and trade) and explanatory variable except in manufacturing. The relationship between inflation and economic growth is ...

ABSTRACT This study was intended to evaluate capital market structure and development. The study was guided by the following objectives; to analyze and evaluate the capital market structure in aiding the development of the Nigerian economy. The study employed the descriptive and explanatory design; questionnaires in addition to library research were applied in order to collect data. Primary and secondary data sources were used and data was analyzed using a ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.0     INTRODUCTION 1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The Nigerian capital market is a long term end of the Nigeria financial system just as the money market is its short-termed in other words, the capital market performs for the economy, at the long-term end, the functions which the money market performs at the short-term end of the spectrum. Thus, while those who are short of funds and need to borrow for ...

CHAPTER ONE      INTRODUCTION                                                   1.1 Background to the study The regulatory quality captures perception of the ability of the government to formulate and implement policies, regulate permit and promote private sector development. Effective regulation achieves the social welfare goals set down by the government for the regulatory ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The term leverage is used to represent the proportionate relationship between debt and equity (Pandey, 2010). The concept used to study the effect of various mix of debt and equity on the shareholders return and the risk in the capital structure of a firm is known as leverage (Bhanu, 2011). Leverage is an investment strategy of using borrowed money to generate outsized ...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of investment in the  Nigeria economy making use of time series data for the period 1970-2003. The study employed the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and the Cochrane Orcutt technique of estimation. The main conclusion which emerged from the analysis is that increase in investment will lead to an increase economic growth. The policy implication of this finding calls for ...

ABSTRACT This research work conducted with special reference to the budgetary system of Emenite Nigeria Limited with the view to ascertain the major role budgets play in the achievement of profitability for an organization. Budget as a profit planning device sets standards of performance of manager, while budgetary control is a tool implored by management to keep track of actual performance to ensure budgeted standards are achieved. In the course ...

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1.2  STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The level of poverty that this country is in now demands that this poverty alleviation mechanism intended to be an emergency, to address some of the most urgent social concerns of the Nigeria’s vulnerable groups, such as the poor, widows, orphans, the disabled, the urban poor, the urban displaced (like the 300,000 Lagos Maroko inhabitants that that were forcibly removed by ...

ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of domestic debt on economic development of Nigeria with a view to determining amongst other the relative importance and impact of domestic debt on economic growth (GDP) of Nigeria. The study adopted qualitative research focuses on secondary data from CBN. Data relating to domestic debt stock, Gross Domestic product, Interest on domestic debt and capital expenditure of Nigeria from 1990 – 2010 were obtained ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     AN OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY  In every country, there exist a financial system that is responsible for the regulating the financial environment of the country, determine the types and amount of funds to be issued, cost of funds and the uses of these funds. The financial system plays fundamental role in the growth and development of an economy, particularly by serving as fulcrum for financial intermediation ...

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE 1.1     OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY The Nigeria economy as we all know is characterized by a number of socio-economic problems. These problems include import dependence, dependence on a single economic sector, weak industrial base, a low level of agriculture production, a weak private sector, dependence on foreign loan, regional inequalities and rural- urban migration, slow growth rate, the inefficiency of public inequalities, low qualities of social ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM One of the functions of the Central Securities Clearing System is certificate dematerialization but most investors are not aware of the operations of the CSCS nor of the facility as they prefer to keep the paper certificate. From January 1, 2009, investors shares were being lodged directly online with the CSCS. Prior to this new directive, the following problems were ...

ABSTRACT This study investigated the Impact of state Government Taxation on the Nigerian Economy with a view to determine its implication on economic behaviour and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). To achieve this purpose, research questions were raised, hypotheses were formulated and a review of extant literature was made. The population of the study consisted of two hundred and twenty-three (223) staffs of the Delta State Board of Internal Revenue. A ...

ABSTRACT A major engine of economic growth and development of any nation is its capital market. Until quite recently, the Nigerian capital market was the toast of many enlightened Nigerians both home and abroad. This research study investigated the impact of financial meltdown on the capital market with particular reference to the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE). In carrying out the study, survey research design was adopted and observations were drawn ...

ABSTRACT The major objective of this research is to explore the relationship between company income tax in Nigeria and economic development of the Nation. The researcher proposed three hypotheses towards addressing the study’s objectives and both primary and secondary sources of data are used in generating the necessary data for that purpose. These data are presented and analyzed by the use of tables, chi-square and regression model of analysis. The ...