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Capital Account Liberalization In Nigeria: Problems And Prospects, Ayodele F. Odusola
Capital Account Liberalization In Nigeria: Problems And Prospects, Ayodele F. Odusola
Economic and Financial Review
Capital Account is one of the lynchpins of globalization and it is often seen as an inevitable path to economic development for developing countries. This is based on the premise that liberalizing capital account would permit financial resources to flow from capital abundant countries to capital scarce countries. This paper examines the problems, prospects and challenges of foreign private capital flows in Nigeria.
Economic Growth And Human Capital Development: The Case Study Of Nigeria, Moses F. Otu, Adeniyi O. Adenuga
Economic Growth And Human Capital Development: The Case Study Of Nigeria, Moses F. Otu, Adeniyi O. Adenuga
Economic and Financial Review
The paper examines empirically the relationship between economic growth and human capital development using Nigeria data. Microeconomics variables such as Growth of real gross domestic products (RGDPG), capital expenditure (CE) on education. recurrent expenditure on education (RE), real gross capital formation (RGCF) was used to proxy physical formation, enrolment into primary (PRYE), post-primary (PPE) and tertiary (TERE) educational institutional were used to proxy human capital development. It found that investment in human capital, through the availability of infrastructure requirements in the education sector accelerates economics growth.
Towards Developing A Vibrant Bonds Market In Nigeria: A Review, Salam N. Gbadebo
Towards Developing A Vibrant Bonds Market In Nigeria: A Review, Salam N. Gbadebo
Economic and Financial Review
The paper highlights two major challenges in bond market which reflects in Nigeria. The author suggests methods and proposal that will enhance a better performance derivatives in long time. The article seek to established the narrative on two argument that, bond finance is less expansionary than money finance and that the expansion is sometime undesirable. While the Microeconomics argument posited that bonds are issued for different reasons. the findings revealed that corporate borrowers use debt market to obtain working capital and new equipment.
Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Transfer To Nigerian Manufacturing Firms: Evidence From Empirical Data., Nasiru Musa Yauri
Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Transfer To Nigerian Manufacturing Firms: Evidence From Empirical Data., Nasiru Musa Yauri
Economic and Financial Review
The paper investigates the vertical effects of FDI on Nigeria manufacturing firms. Specifically, the paper asks, do Nigerian manufacturing firms benefits from FDI? As an investigation into the vertical effects of FDI , the paper attempts to establish whether manufacturing firms in Nigeria that receives FDI benefit from technology flows which comes along with foreign capital. The paper employs data from the World Bank Nigerian manufacturing survey, 2001.