1. EFFECT OF CAPITAL MARKET ON INVESTMENT IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT This study has attempted to investigate the effect of capital market on investment in Nigeria using the OLS technique to estimate this relationship covering a period of 34 years (1981 2014). It was discovered that for the period under study that market capitalization and inflation had no significant effect with investment however the turnover ratio and value traded ratio are significant...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,228 engagements |

2. COCOA EXPORT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH OF NIGERIA (1981-2014)

» ABSTRACT This paper investigates if there is a significant long – run relationship between cocoa exports and economic growth in Nigeria. The study covers the periods between 1981 to 2014. The underlying models are the export led growth, hypothesis, neo – classical growth model, presbich trade model and Keynesian model. In the formulated model, real gross domestic product was used as a proxy fo...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,442 engagements |

3. IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) provides with much needed capital investments with a view to achieving economic growth in Nigeria. Foreign direct investment is a leading role in developing countries of Africa giving rise to a widespread belief among policy makers that foreign direct investment has enhanced growth and promotes development in developing and low income countries (LICS). Fore...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,901 engagements |

4. IMPACT OF CAPITAL MARKET ON EMPLOYMENT GENERATION IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT This research work was motivated with the desire to alleviate the prevailing stagnating rate of unemployment in Nigeria by studying the deficits and surpluses of the Capital market. This study analyses the impact of capital market on employment generation in Nigeria from 1980 2015 with the use of time series data. The research technique employed was the ordinary least square (OLS) and Joh...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,654 engagements |

5. HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENTAS A CATALYST FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN NI...

» ABSTRACT The study examines Human capital development and economic growth in Nigeria. A model was specified and data were collected from the period of 1986 2016. The method used in this research work is the error correction model (ECM) and variables are: real gross domestic product (RGDP) as the dependent variable while human capital development (LNHMC), labour force productivity (LNLFP), money su...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,625 engagements |

6. EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY AND FOREIGN PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT The standard neoclassical theory of growth predicts that capital should move from developed countries to developing countries (Lucas, 1990). In recent years, there has been increase in the flow of international capital, due to a constellation of factors like economic integration, financial markets liberalization and technological advancement. It is now obvious that given the vicious cycle...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,033 engagements |

7. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES

» ABSTRACT The advent of the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) in the Southeast Asia in 1997 is an appealing case for research work in assessing corporate financial distress. From international perspective, AFC is a product of contagion effect that spread from Thailand and consequently to the other Asian countries. Domestically, the AFC has resulted in a sudden economic slump and corporate failures in th...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,306 engagements |

8. ESTIMATING THE EFFECTS OF THE AGGREGATED HUMAN CAPITAL ON LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY OF...

» ABSTRACT This work discusses the effect of human capital on labour productivity of manufacturing sector in Nigeria. The study applied the ordinary least squares regression analysis in the estimation. The evaluation result shows that human capital has a positive effect on the sectoral labour productivity level of the manufacturing firms. The study found that government expenditure on education main...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,859 engagements |

9. EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY ON NIGERIAN CAPITAL MARKET

» ABSTRACT This research work examined the effect of monetary policy on the Nigerian stock market by specifically examining the impact of monetary policy on money supply, treasury bill rate, exchange rate,interest rate and inflation rate on all share index. To achieve these objectives, the study employed the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) econometric technique in which time series data was collec...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,598 engagements |

10. EFFECT OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA ECONOMY

» ABSTRACT Unemployment is a macro economic problem that affects individuals most differently and severely. This study investigated the effect of unemployment on gross domestic product (GDP) in Nigeria. The quarterly data was used for the estimation capturing the periods of 1981 through 2014. The research work used ordinary least square for estimation. The unit root test, etc were carried out in thi...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,790 engagements |

11. EFFECT OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT This work aimed at examining the effect of trade liberalization on Economic Growth in Nigeria from 1970 2014. The data collected are secondary data from the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts and CBN Statistical Bulletin. The unit root test and Co integration test were carried out, and the model was estimated by OLS. The major findings is that all the variables became stationary a...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,180 engagements |

12. EFFECT OF TAX ADMINISTRATION ON REVENUE GENERATION

» ABSTRACT The study examines the effect of Tax Administration on Revenue Generation in Enugu State (A case study of the State Board of Inland Revenue Service Enugu State). The level of revenue generated in the state has been in a declining form due to poor tax administration and collections of taxes and lack of proper return of accounts. These are the negative effects that affect government revenue...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,589 engagements |

13. EFFECT OF INVESTORS‘ SENTIMENT ON STOCK MARKET RETURNS IN NIGERIA

» ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of investors’ sentiment on stock market return in Nigeria with consideration to bull and bear market cycles which most past studies neglected. The dependent variable was proxy by Stock Market Returns (SPR) while the explanatory variables were investors sentiment (SentPCA), Interest Rate(INTR), Inflation Rate (INFL) and Exchange Rate (EXRT), while bull event...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,954 engagements |

14. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW

» ABSTRACT One of the major strands of the millennium development goals (MDGs) for global eradication of poverty is employment generation, which is also in tandem with one of the issues in Nigeria’s current economic development programme, the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy, otherwise known as NEEDS. As part of the programme’s title indicates, economic empowerment is a maj...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,732 engagements |

15. CURRENCY DEVALUATION ANNOUNCEMENT AND SHARE PRICES OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIG...

» Abstract The sudden announcement of the devaluation of the Nigerian Naira to US Dollar by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the 25th November 2014 has created an intense debate and a great deal of mix responses among market analysts and the general populace. However, available opinions on the degree of effects such announcement might have on Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) stock prices can at best b...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,573 engagements |

16. AN APPRIASAL OF THE ROLES OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN PROMOTING AGRICULTURAL INSUR...

» ABSTRACT Starting in 2010 2011, the government of Nigeria after years of being neglect began to reform the agricultural sector to focus the sector, the government implemented a new strategy called “The Agricultural Transformation Agenda ATA” this policy is aim at helping Nigeria’s refocus attention on agriculture. Growth and development in any economy, especially the agricultural sector i...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,533 engagements |

17. DECENTRALIZATION, TAX EVASION, AND THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY

» ABSTRACT Economic models of decentralization generally emphasize beneficial consequences—efficient provision of local public goods, hard budget constraints, and sorting of residents according to taste. This paper notes two less benign effects. First, political decentralization makes it easier for subnational governments to collude with enterprises at the center’s expense, offering firms politi...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,293 engagements |

18. CURRENT CONSUMPTION AND FUTURE INCOME GROWTH: SYNTHETIC PANEL EVIDENCE

» ABSTRACT To what extent do households make their consumption savings decisions in a forward looking manner? While this question is of fundamental importance to many aspects of economics, a wide range of viewpoints prevail. The massive empirical literature studying consumer behavior with Euler equations has produced mixed results (see Martin Browning and Annamaria Lusardi (1996) for a survey), with...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,013 engagements |

19. CURRENCY SUBSTITUTION IN SELECTED AFRICAN COUNTRIES

» ABSTRACT This study investigates the presence of currency substitution in eight African countries Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tunisia and Zambia for the period 1976 to 2005 using both regional and US dollar as anchor currencies. We find that currency substitution is prevalent in Ghana and Nigeria when CFA franc is used as an anchor currency. However, when US dollar is used...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 6,077 engagements |

20. CUMULATIVE REGIONAL DECLINE, INSTITUTIONAL INADEQUACY AND THE “DEMOCRATIC DEFI...

» ABSTRACT EMU now seems increasingly likely to progress as planned with a broad membership of eight to ten countries in 1999. The political determination of Europe’s leaders has developed a momentum that makes the birth of the Euro ever more likely. Other influential people also support the introduction of the single currency, amongst them bankers, farmers and large corporations who operate in ma...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,264 engagements |

21. CORRUPTION IN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH – A REVIEW

» ABSTRACT Empirical research on corruption is quite a new undertaking. In an attempt to determine the causes and consequences of corruption, academics have concentrated lately on cross country analyses. These are mostly based on professional studies of the degree of corruption in various countries. Such assessments are sometimes compiled by agencies to determine country risks and the data gathered ...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,034 engagements |

22. CORRUPTION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

» ABSTRACT Corruption is an ancient practice that has been traced back to pre biblical times and made itself known in the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, India and Rome. Despite corruption’s long history, the 1990s witnessed a decline in public acceptance. Increasingly, corruption has become an elections issue in numerous countries. Moreover, corruption scandals helped unseat governments i...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,167 engagements |

23. CLASSIFYING EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES: DEEDS VS. WORDS

» ABSTRACT Most of the empirical literature on the relative merits of alternative exchange rate regimes uses the IMF de jure classification based on the regime that governments claim to have, abstracting from the fact that many countries that in theory follow flexible regimes intervene in the exchange market to an extent that in practice makes them indistinguishable from fixed rate regimes, a...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 5,084 engagements |

24. CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA ECONOMIC REPORT FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2008

» ABSTRACT Aggregate output growth measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at 6.49 per cent during the first quarter of 2008, compared with 7.82 per cent in the preceding quarter. The growth was driven by the non oil sector which was estimated at 9.67 per cent. Provisional data indicated growth in monetary aggregates during the review quarter. Broad money supply (M2) and narrow mo...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,596 engagements |

25. CAPITAL MOBILITY, MONETIZATION, AND MONEY DEMAND:EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA

» ABSTRACT Empirical research regarding money demand relationships has been directed towards the identification of a few key economic variables that determine desired money balances. The typical money demand specification includes real income to represent the budget constraint. and the returns of one or more alternative assets to measure the opportunity cost of holding money. The demand function als...Continue Reading »

Item Type: Project Material | 65 pages | 4,817 engagements |

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