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ABSTRACT The study seeks to present an empirical analysis of the impact of inflation on economic growth in Nigeria, using annual time-series dataset for the period 1979-2008. It has been argued that inflation is an unavoidable phenomenon in the face of economic growth. That is why, over the years there had been a long standing conventional wisdom that inflation impedes economic growth. The stationarity and co-integration techniques were adopted to ...

ABSTRACT This study is meant to examine the effect of external debt on gross domestic product using econometric analysis. The research revealed that Nigeria’s external debt has contributed immensely to the gross domestic product.  This has affected investment on the domestic productivity and hence invariably affected the economic growth and development.  Due to the macroeconomics distortion in the economic growth and development like the problem of unemployment, inflation, balance of payment disequilibrium ...

ABSTRACT Generally, monetary policies seek to achieve relative macroeconomic stability. Based on countries’ experience especially that of Nigeria on the role of monetary policy in controlling economic stability, this study examines the efficacy of monetary policy in controlling inflation rate and output fluctuation and taking into cognizance the evaluation and framework of monetary policy in Nigeria.  Using annual data spanning over 1985-2008 and applying the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique on ...

ABSTRACT The development of agriculture since 1960 and its contribution to the growth of the economy has been discussed in the course of this study. It is however obvious from the analysis that though agriculture has contributed positively to economic growth, there are fundamental problems attributable largely to the characteristics of Nigerian agriculture. It is also evident that unfavourable environments as well as poor implementation of economic policies were detrimental ...

ABSTRACT The research work investigates the impact of price; exchange rate volatility on agricultural trade flows in Nigeria using the classical least regression model (CLRM) and the ordinary least square (OLS) modeling approach with time series data spanning 1975-2009 and a number of statistical tools are employed to verify this hypothesis. The overall finding from all the technique employed in the paper has established a statistical significant positive impact of ...

ABSTRACT Prominent among the obstacles facing the performance of manufacturing sector in Nigeria is the lack of effectively bank credits to the manufacturing sector of the economy. The banks especially the commercial ones have not been contributing effectively to the output of manufacturing sector of the economy. This study takes into cognizance the problems of manufacturing the range of one understanding of something, or awareness of something). sector in Nigeria. ...

ABSTRACT The work was on the impact of taxation on foreign direct investment in Nigeria (1970-2009), dealing with secondary data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Bureau of Statistics. Regression analysis with (OLS) technique was used. Our findings indicate that there is a positive correlation between government expenditure, manufacturing output, inflation and foreign direct investment (FDI). However, company tax was negatively correlated. Based on these findings, we found ...

ABSTRACT The focus of this research work is based on the impact of interest rate policy on investment in the Nigerian economy between the period of 1981 – 2009. because interest rate and investment is at core of economic stabilization. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of interest rate policy on Nigeria prior to interest rate regulation in 1987 and to serve as a guide on how interest ...

ABSTRACT The essence of this study is to empirically explore the impact of inflation and economic growth in the context of the Nigerian economy. The study contends that while high rates of inflation is detrimental to economic growth, moderate and stable inflation rates supplements return to savers, enhances investment and therefore economic growth of a country. Using annual data set on real GDP and inflation rates for the period of ...

ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of monetary policy on economic growth in Nigeria from 1979-2008. The study adopted error correction model specification. Data was collected from CBN statistic bulletine, the statistical techniques with the aid of P.C. give software package. The finding from the study support the view that monetary variables used has no significant impact on economic growth in Nigeria The study recommend autonomy of the monetary authority ...

ABSTRACT The study examined the effectiveness of monetary policy in controlling inflation in Nigeria.  In the model specified, inflation is the regress and while cash reserved requirement, liquidity ratio, money supply, minimum rediscount rate and interest rate are the regressor.  Data was collected from CBN statistical Bulletin .  The statistical techniques used for the analysis is the ordinary least square technical with the aid of E-view 5.0 software package.  The ...

ABSTRACT This study is designed to investigate on the impact of unemployment on the Economic growth in Nigeria for the period of 26 years (1981-2008). This is done in other to find out its influence on the persisted occurrence of unemployment among the Nigeria youths and stagnates the growth of the economy. It focuses on those objectives. 1)  To determine the relationship between unemployment and economic growth in Nigeria. 2)  To ascertain the magnitude of ...

ABSTRACT The project set out to examine the role of commercial banks to economic development of Nigeria from 1980 – 2008. The variables used for this study are commercial bank loans and advances, interest rate on the loans, gross fixed capital formation. The main objective of the study is to examine the role of commercial bank to economic development in Nigeria. The methodology involves the use of ordinary least squares (OLS) using E-VIEWS econometric ...

ABSTRACT    This study examines the impact of oil price changes on the economics growth of Nigeria; this explains that the changes have a negative impact on the GDP (Gross Domestic Product). This change is also known as price volatility. An economic analysis was employed using the method of ordinary least square and from the result of the analysis, it was clear that oil price change has effect/impact on the Gross Domestic Product ...

ABSTRACT This work examined the impact of microfinance bank in poverty reduction using Cosmopolitan microfinance bank as a case study.  A cross sectional data was used to carry out this impact analysis.   The ordinary least squares result revealed that savings is the only major determinant of income level in Port Harcourt community.  Even though Cosmopolitan microfinance bank does not extend financial services as a result of high interest rates on borrowing and other impediments inherent ...

ABSTRACT The project set out to examine the impact of international trade on Economic Growth of Nigeria from (1980 – 2009), the variables used for this study are GDP, Volume of Import, Volume of Export, Net Export and Trade Openness.  The methodology used is Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and E-new software package.The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between international trade and economic growth, and to examine the ...

ABSTRACT This research studied the impact of tax incentives on industrial sector development in Nigeria from 1981 to 2009 using time series data. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method was adopted using a Classical Linear Regression Model and the E-View version 6.0 software. Two models were used to determine the impact of subsidies, government expenditure and exports on both industrial output and investment respectively. The result showed that subsidies and ...

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of exchange rate variations on inflation in Nigerian economy between 1979 and 2008. This study made use of Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression in analyzing the impact of exchange rate variations on inflation in Nigeria. There are also other variables that determine the impact of exchange rate on inflation in Nigeria in the last 30 years by evaluating the relationship between government expenditure, money ...

ABSTRACT Capital formation is one of the major determinants of economic growth. Literature is replete with the extent to which capital formation can engineer the growth of nations. There is a conventional perception that the most pertinent obstacle to economic growth is shortage of capital. This work analyses capital formation and its impact on the Nigerian economy. The work studies the extent to which capital formation effects economic growth in ...

ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of interest rate on investment determination in Nigeria. The study is necessitated by the fact that the behavior of interest rates to a large extent determines investment activities and economic growth of any country. Investment decision is seen as demand for credit in an economy and this study calculated the annual variance of interest rate and its effects on investment determination. This research made ...