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ABSTRACT The impact of public expenditure on agriculture in Nigeria is enormous. Government having recognized agriculture as the second highest sector after oil of which the country depends for food, employment and foreign exchange. This project work would summarize the magnitude and composition of governments’ expenditure on agricultural sector since 1960  The project also examines that contribution of agriculture towards Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P), between the year 1960 when Nigeria ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Oil, a very versatile and flexible, non-reproductive, depleting, natural (hydrocarbon) is a fundamental input into modern economic activity, providing about 50% of the total energy demand in the world. (Anyanwu J.C. et al, 1997). Petroleum or crude oil is an oily, bituminous liquid consisting of a mixture of many substances, mainly the element of carbon and hydrogen known as hydrocarbons. It also ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In recent years, particularly since the adoption of the economic reform programme in Nigeria in 1986, there has been a decisive switch of emphasis from the grandiose, capital intensive, large scale industrial project based on the philosophy of import substitution to small scale industries with immense potentials for developing domestic linkages for rapid, sustainable industrial development. Apart from their potential for ensuring a ...

ABSTRACT This research work studies the international competitiveness of the Nigerian economy in the global market by analyzing the relationship between trade openness and output growth in Nigeria. Using time-series data over the period 1970-2007, we show that output growth of the Nigeria economy is a function of two sets of shocks; (i) external shocks (openness and real exchange rate) and (ii) internal shocks (real interest rate and unemployment rate). ...

ABSTRACT The term unemployment can be defined as an economics condition marked by the fact that individual actively seeking jobs remain unhired. Unemployment is expressed as a percentage of the total available work force. The level of unemployment varies with economics conditions and other circumstances. This is mostly seen in graduate of various institutions of learning especially in under developed nations like Nigeria. The study was designed to investigate the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 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 1.0   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In any economy there is a financial system that is responsible for regulating the financial environment of the society determining the types and use of funds to be issued, source of funds to be put. The financial system is really made up of two major markets, namely money and capital stock market. The many market is the market for short term funds ...

ABSTRACT This essay intends to examine the manpower utilization in the industrial development in Edo state with Bendel Brewery Nigeria limited as a case study. Chapter one this study contains the introduction and background information about Bendel Brewery. Chapter two is the review of literature. Chapter three contains methodology, while chapter four is data presentation and analysis. Finally in chapter five, the researcher includes the summary of study, conclusion, suggestion, ...

ABSTRACT In Igbo, Agriculture use to be the main export product such as cocoa, groundnut, rubber etc that was to generate foreign exchange to the economy? But later in the 1970s agriculture was neglected and left to suffer, this have contribute to the problem of agriculture. This study is to examine the problem and prospect of agriculture in economic development of Edo State. The objectives of this study are as ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The economic system practiced by any country determines the type of economic policy that country produces, that is determines the monopoly of power of power in production and distribution activities with special reference to the ownership, decision making as well as incentive structure operating in the country. Karl Polory (1964) distinguishes three (3) main types of economic system as ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY There have been rapid increase of youths movements from rural area to urban centres, no one is in doubt today of the fact the rate at which people (especially, the youths) move from rural area to urban centres is affecting the lives of the rural dwellers. Nigeria is a developing country; in fact, she is at the threshold of being a developed ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      BACKGROUND OF THE BODY Privatization Appeared on standard dictionaries only in the early 1980s for many years up to 1980, the Nigerian government made fairly extensive use of the public enterprise for resource mobilization and allocation, particularly within the social service and utilities sector with the windfall from the crude oil sales during the boom of the 1970s, the economic activities of PES in ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study is to analyze how public infrastructure and capacity utilization could aid manufacturing growth in a developing economy like Nigeria. The concern is understandable where productivity growth is major determinant of the future of standard of living. Economist have written extensively on the decline of productivity growth and how it affects output growth and has gone to great length ...

ABSTRACT The study examines the rules and implications of the World Trade Organization on Nigerian trade. The study has the following objectives; to examine the Implication of World Trade Organization rules on Nigerian trade, to examine the effect of trade liberalization on Nigerian trade. Concerning methodology, the population for the study was not large, and data could be collected from all the respondents, the researcher adopted the census sampling technique ...

ABSTRACT The examination of the contribution of real property related services to gross domestic product in Nigeria 1999-2010. the land standing relationship between a nations economic footing is measured by its gross donatives product (GDP) and real estate investments has been observed and studied over the past century  by academicians as well as by private and pubic official to ascertain its extent or degree of contributions to a nation gross domestic ...

ABSTRACT This research work examined the role of capital market in industrial growth and development in Nigeria. Secondary data were used in this research work. The hypothesis was tested to examine the significance of relationship that exists between capital market and industrial growth in Nigeria. The analytical techniques used were the simple regression analysis while Ordinary Least Square (OLS) R-2¬ and f-statistic was used for the test. From the test, ...

ABSTRACT The study of the nature involves a lot of deep research and understanding of the factors, which creates the effects on the subject matter. Primarily, these factors were more economical than managerial as the case may be, on the understanding that this research work is being casual out under a management setting or department. Just as the subject matter is, the impact of foreign direct investment on the Nigerian ...

ABSTRACT In recent times there has been growing concern about the rising but volatile rate of investment in Nigeria. This concern stems from the fact that investment play a dominant role in stimulating growth. The study buttress on the overview and empirical analysis into the determinants of investment in Nigeria. In order to achieve the objectives hypothesis was stated with the purpose of achieving current and future stable upswing of ...

ABSTRACT This research was prompted by the obvious dominant role of the oil sector in the Nigerian economy. The urge to know the extent to which this sector affects the economic life of the people, led therefore to the analysis of the impact of the oil industry on the Nigeria economy. The economic impact which was categorized into positive and Negative on the bases of their economic contribution was thus ...

INTRODUCTION 1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Agriculture is concerned with the husbandry of crops and animals for food and other purposes.  It is the foundation upon which the development of stable human communities, such as rural and urban communities has depended on in many parts of the world.  The study of economic history provides us with ample evidence that an agricultural revolution is a fundamental pre-condition for economic development.  The ...