ABSRACT This study examined the effect of agriculturalfinancing on agricultural output in Nigeria.This study is necessitated by the fact that agricultural practices have not been given full attention they deserve in Nigeria knowing truly that the country by nature is gifted in agriculture and its neglect is our bane in terms of food production and revenue yield. The research relied on secondary data that was used, which concentrated on banks credit and Government funding of the agricultur...
ABSTRACT The significance of foreign capital inflows to West Africa cannot be underestimated, more so when almost all the countries in the sub-region are virtually aid-dependent. One way to access this muchneeded resource can be through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). This rationalization has ignited a stiff competition for FDI among nations, sub-region and regions. However, FDI inflows to West Africa have been dwindling over the years, which may impede efforts to achieve the Sustainable Dev...
ABSTRACT Foreign direct investment (FDI) has played a key role in the growth and development of developing economies. However, one prominent opposing question about foreign direct investment is whether it is a blessing or a curse to the natural environment of the host country. While some argue that the positive spillover of FDI especially through green technologies improves the natural environment of the host country, opponents argue that it deteriorates the natural environment through an inc...
ABSTRACT Earlier works on moonlighting are concentrated on the motives for holding two or more jobs. In Ghana, as well as other African countries, studies on multiple job holding have mostly centered around determinants of moonlighting, relationship between moonlighting and unionism, urban deprivation and multiple modes of livelihood, among others. On the contrary, little work has been done on the effect that moonlighting has on moonlighters, especially the working poor population. This thesi...
ABSTRACT This research investigates empirically the relationship between government deficit and inflation in Nigeria. The study aimes at determining the nature of causality between deficit and inflation; the dynamics of inflation; and the role of deficit in the process of inflation, among others. Both descriptive and analytical techniques have been used to carry out the study. Specifically, ratios, charts, growth rates and a macro econometric model have been used to analyse relevant statistic...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to find out the implication of human resource development on the economic development of Umuna in Orlu Local Government Area in Imo State. With the use of survey design and random sampling of corporate workers, civil servants, private company workers and labor in general, questionnaire administration is used to acquire information and simple percentage for generalization. The study found out that development can be achieved through accessible health care and affordab...
ABSTRACT The primary goal of governments, development partners and Non-Governmental Organisations to end hunger and ensure food security for all by 2030 under the United Nations declaration remains a key policy drive especially for developing countries. This study as a result, examines the effect of trade liberalisation on food security in Sub-Sahara Africa from 1970 to 2014. The study adopts the System General Method of Moments (GMM) econometric technique in investigating the effect of trade...
ABSTRACT This study adopts a legal definition of informal sector work and studies the determinants of informality, paying particular attention to the gender dynamics with respect to informality and poverty. The study throws more light on the definition and measures of informality, then proceeds to determine the socio-economic factors that influence an individual’s decision to work in the informal sector. Particular attention is given to the relationship between informal sector work and pove...
1.0 Background to the Study In spite of the high level of globalization, international trade, financial liberalization as well as the increasing economic integration of the world as a whole, there is still a wide range of currencies circulating in the world’s economic monetary system. The International Monetary Fund with 188 member countries has more than 150 currencies. As Mundell (1961) writes: “If some spaceship captain came down from outer space and looked at the way international mon...
ABSTRACT This paper investigates household cooking fuel choice and its impact on household healthcare expenditure as well as examining the socio-economic and demographic factors that influence household healthcare expenditure in Ghana. We employed the Tobit regression technique and data from the sixth and seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/13 and 2016/17 respectively. Our findings reveal that relative to households using wood, households using charcoal and ga...
ABSTRACT While many studies have tested the theoretical essence of education or income on maternal mortality, none has studied these relationships in the long term. Researchers have paid very little attention to assessing the impact of income or education on maternal mortality in SubSaharan African countries with different income statuses. Using panel data on forty-three SubSaharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2010, along with the modernization theory, the study unravels the pote...
ABSTRACT It is prudent for a government to budget approximately for its expenditure based on expected or an accurately forecasted revenue. This will reduce the recurring budget deficit of the economy and bring the fiscal profile of an economy as Ghana to an acceptable level. There seem to be no clear guidelines from literature as to which econometric method provides the most accurate fiscal variables forecasts, but rather each forecasting case is considered and evaluated separately for indivi...
Abstract This study examines the insurance services sub-sectors impact on output performance in Nigeria from the period 1981-2017. Using service exports and imports as proxy for insurance services. Methodically, this study test for stationary, test for the cointegration using the EngleGranger single-equation and use the Generalized Linear Model (GLM) method to analysis the static impact. The results confirm one cointegrating relationship amongst the variables used in the study. The results a...
Abstract The premise of this study is to empirically appraise and identify the factors that can promote good health in Nigeria. The study use a VEC and Granger causality/block exogeneity tests methods to explain the linear relationship between the endogenous and exogenous variables and to test whether the endogenous variable life expectancy at birth (LEP) (proxied as good health) can be treated as exogenous. The results show that health expenditures, income per capita, education expenditure,...
ABSTRACT Financial sector has gained prominence as a possible determinant of saving and growth in the globalized financial markets. The financial sector in Africa, since the 1990s, continues to experience some reforms and development. However, despite all these reforms in the financial sector, the region has low levels of domestic savings resulting in the dependence on foreign resources for their infrastructure needs, which mostly are associated with volatilities and uncertainties. Based on t...