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CHAPTER ONE 1.1  BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The bond market  constitute  a financial market for the issuance of where new debt known as the primary market and the purchase and sale of   debt securities referred to as the secondary market. The debt traded is in the form of bonds  but it may include notes, bills, and so on. It is essentially meant to provide for long-term funding for public and private ...

CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Over the past years, scholars have debated on whether the informal sector should really be seen as a marginalized sector, which mops up excess or entrenched workers or as a vibrant, entrepreneurial part of the Nigeria economy which can stimulate economic growth and job creation. It should be noted that around the world, about two-thirds of all employees work in the informal sector (World ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY A major challenge in to the Nigerian economy is the development of successful domestic enterprises that provide its people with needed products and thus contributes significantly in economic development of the country. Nigeria has a geographical importance in Africa through the potential of growth and development, the abundant and everlasting natural resource, diversified culture and trade unity with other African countries, American, European, ...

CHAPTER ONE 1.1  BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Microfinance constitute the facilitation  of financial services to meet  the needs of low income individuals  such as micro-entrepreneurs, through  the provision of small loans (microloans), small savings deposits (micro-savings), micro-insurance and enhancing simple payments services required by micro-entrepreneurs and  economically active poor people who cannot gain access to    financial services provided by the formal banking sector.(USAID, 2000). The loans provided are small in ...

CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Aviation has become an integral part of the socioeconomic life of the country. According to Igbatayo and Igbinedion (2014: 1), the aviation industry can be defined as those activities that relate directly to transporting people and goods by air from one place to another. The industry comprises various activities such as airline and transport operations, general aviation aircraft maintenance, scheduled and chartered flights for ...

ABSTRACT Macro economic policy plays a significant role in an economy. We intend to ascertain the relationship between macro economic policy and rural sector development in order to achieve macro economic objectives of full employment, price stability, balance of payment equilibrium, increases Gross Domestic Product and the likes. Macro economic policy can be said to be the instrument of fiscal and monetary policy use in solving, reducing or controlling economic ...

ABSTRACT This is to examine the impacts of entrepreneurship in the economic development of the Nigerian economy. In this research work, the method of estimation is based on the use of multiple regression technique. Unique relationships between entrepreneurship in the economic development contribution were established. Our empirical findings also suggests that there is significant relationship between entrepreneurship development and its contributions to economic development of Nigerian economy e.g. unemployment, investment ...

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to examine the impact of interest rate deregulation on savings mobilization in the Nigerian Economy, using a time series annual data of \980-2008. The central focus of this work is to investigate whether deregulated interest rate mobilizes savings as against the Pre-SAP era which was a fixed rate policy. The study made use of secondary data derived from Central Bank of Nigeria, using ...

ABSTRACT The global phenomenon in the financial service industry is the consolidation of the financial activities towards ensuring financial stability. It is occurring at a rapid pace due to changes in economic environment, which often alter the constraints faced by financial service firms.  The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of recapitalization of banks on Nigerian economy. Secondary data was gathered from CBN statistical bulletin on ...

ABSTRACT This study set out to empirically examine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the economic growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2010. The paper makes the proposition that there exists controversies over the effect of FDI on the economic growth of developing nations. However, the results obtained showed that FDI has some positive spillovers on the Nigerian economy hence the need to embark on the policies that ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the 1976 Local Government Reforms, explained Local Government as follows: “Local Government is Government at Local level exercised through representative councils established by Law to exercise specific power within defined areas” (Government print: 1976). The United Nations Office for Public Administration explained Local Government as: “A political division of a nation (in a Federal or State system) which is constituted by ...

ABSTRACT This Research work attempts to look at the effect of Tax evasion and avoidance on economy of Nigeria and its capacity to reduce tax revenue growth (A case study of Lagos State Internal Revenue Service). Tax is a compulsory levy imposed by government on income individual, firms and household. It was also find out that an individual tax evader or avoider may engage in it simply because he is ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The manufacturing sector plays a significant role in economic development. Industrialization acts as a catalyst that accelerates the pace of structural transformation and diversification of economic, enable a country to fully utilize its factor endowment and to depend less on foreign supply of finished goods or raw materials for its economic growth, development and sustainability. Industrialization which is a deliberate and sustained application ...

ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between infrastructural spending and economic growth in Nigeria between 1980 and 2015. More specifically, the study assessed the impact of infrastructural spending on health, education, agriculture and oil on economic growth in Nigeria. Data collected on the variables of interest were subjected to the econometric techniques of Unit-root test, Johansen Cointegration test, Ordinary Least Square, Error Correction Model and Granger causality test. Result from ...

ABSTRACT Economists overtime have attributed population explosion as one of the chief causes of unemployment in developing economies. This study examines the impact of population growth on unemployment rate in Nigeria between 1985 and 2015. The study adopted the econometric techniques of the unit root test, cointegration test, multivariate regression analysis and the pair-wise granger causality test for the analysis of data. The results revealed that population growth rate; per ...

ABSTRACT Global economic recession has micro and macro effects on all sectors of a country’s economy. The study examined economic recession and human capital development in Nigeria. The training and development of university lecturers in Ogun East Central District were related to the human capital development. The study adopted the research survey design approach and the simple random sampling technique was used to select 453 lecturers in different positions and ...

ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between economic data usage and the performance of SMEs in Nigeria. More precisely, the study sought to assess the influence of selected macroeconomic indicators such as exchange rate, inflation rate, inflation rate, employment rate, gross fixed capital formation, domestic credit to private sector and economic growth rate on SMEs performance in Nigeria between 2001 and 2015. The study adopted the Ordinary Least Square technique ...

ABSTRACT The study examined an evaluation of monetary policy in Nigeria and its impact on economic growth. More specifically, the study sought to assess monetary policy and economic growth in Nigeria. The study focuses on major growth components such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and price level, while qualitative research method was adopted. The variables of interest germane of the study are real gross domestic product (RGDP), broad money ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study International experience has become critically important in today’s business world. Global trends have had an impact on the processes and outcomes of business fortunes even in developing countries; and have caused industrial relation actors to think differently about their goals. Every country is affected by business cycle; a situation whereby there is nationwide fluctuations in production, trade and general economic activities ...

ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of tourism earning on economic growth in Nigeria between 1996 and 2016. The study sought to ascertain the vibrancy of tourism industry on the Nigerian economy. A model was specified in which tourism earning, inflation rate and exchange rate are expressed as a linear function of economic growth (proxy by real GDP). The econometric techniques of Augmented-Dickey Fuller test, Johansen Cointegration test and the ...