ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating the impact of public sector investment on economic growth of Uganda from 1985 to 2016. The specific objectives were to examine the effect of investment education in health investment and transport investment on economic growth the study was carried out using secondary data collected from 1985 to 2016. And was conducted based on expost facto research design focusing on time series data. Augmented Dickey- Fuller (ADF), tests result indicate that all the...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Namibia. It employed an auto-regression distributive lag modelling approach on quarterly data for the period 1995 to 2014. The study used the following variables, namely: ratio of broad money supply to gross domestic product, real gross domestic product (GDP), saving and interest rate. Firstly, the results of the unit root tests showed a combination of integration of order zero and one. Secon...
ABSTRACT The study examined the impact of monetary policy in stabilizing the Nigeria economy. In the model specified inflation is the regress while cash research requirement, liquidity ratio, money supply, minimum rediscount rate, interest rate are the regressors. The government employs a deliberate manipulation of cost and availability of credit and money to achieve this economic objective. The CBN being the sole regulatory body combines measures designed to regulate the value, supply and co...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the contribution of the Services sector to total tax revenue and economic growth in Ghana, with particular focus on the Telecommunication subsector. Quarterly time series data for the period 2008 to 2016 was used for the analysis within the Autoregressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL) framework. Additional qualitative information was elicited from key tax administrators to ascertain the challenges confronting tax mobilization in the telecom subsector to authentica...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the potential non-linear and asymmetric impact of remittances and bank-based financial development on economic growth and also the potential mediating role of bank-based financial development in the remittance-growth nexus. The study used the newly developed Non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model by Shin et al. (2014) on annual data for Ghana from 1979 to 2017 for the analysis. The study finds that remittances have a non-linear and asymmetric...
FRAUDULENT PRACTICES IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY: ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA (2005-2017) ABSTRACT This study was set to investigate various forms of fraudulent practices in the banking industry:its impact on economic growth in Nigeria, the study seek to examine the effect of amount lost to fraud on Nigeria economic growth and to also examine the effect of number of fraud cases on Nigeria economic growth covering the period between 2005-2017, the main instrument for data collectio...
Abstract: The environment and its conservation are critical for the survival and well-being of all living creatures. Their importance has gained momentum over the years and now occupies a central position in international fora. A closely related issue that is also at the forefront in international debates is sustainable development, particularly in this period following the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, commonly referred to as Rio + 20. Bearing in mind that the world ...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Ethics refers to a discipline in which matter of right and wrong, good and evil, virtue and vice are systematically examined (Brinkmann, 2002). In Nigeria, according to Aguolu (2002) the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in 1979 issued the ‘Codes of Professional Conduct of Members’ (revise in1989) outlining the codes of conduct for its members in matters of professional practice. Such codes of conduct relates to the requirem...
ABSTRACT The study aims to ascertain the impact of external debt on the economic growth of Nigeria. The specific objectives are to ascertain the impact of external debt and external debt servicing on gross domestic product with equivalent research questions and research hypotheses. The research design used is the ex-post-facto research design, secondary data were collected from the CBN statistical bulletin. The method of data analysis is ordinary least squares statistical technique with the a...
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Manufacturing sector plays a catalytic role in a modern economy and has many dynamic benefits crucial for economic transformation. In typical advanced countries, the manufacturing sector is leading, sector in many respects. It is an avenue for increasing productivity related to import replacement and export expansion, creating foreign exchange earning capacity; and raising employment and per capital income which causes unique consumption patterns. Furthermore, it creat...
ABSTRACT On 30th December 2007, following the announcement of the presidential election results in Kenya; violence broke out in several places across the country amidst claims that the electoral commission of Kenya (ECK) had rigged the presidential election. Sporadic eruptions continued for many weeks, bringing death and destmction to thousands of Kenyans. The general purpose of the study was to examine the contribution of the postelection violence to the growth of electoral democracy in Ke...
ABSTRACT The broad objective of this study is to examine the impact of minimum wages on economic growth in osun state. While specific objective are Examine the impact of percentage change in ratio of minimum wages on per capita income in osun state Assess the effect of increase in minimum wages on gross domestic product (GDP) in Osun state and Investigate the relationship between increase in minimum wages and inflation rate in osun state To achieve this objective the variables used in this st...