Government Expenditure and Private Investment in Nigeria.

dc.contributor.authorAmire Comfort M
dc.contributor.authorOkufuwa Michael O
dc.contributor.authorAmire Christianah O
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-09T12:42:00Z
dc.date.available2025-05-09T12:42:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.description.abstractIn view of the changing role that government plays in enhancing and ensuring economic development amid the internal societal economic challenges widely attributable to a sharp decline in government income, evidence abound that most of the state trade and business policies have been made including but not limited to policies on deregulation, privatization, among others targeted at sectoral reforms to support the economy and to boost public confidence in private and public sector investments. It is against this backdrop that this paper takes a look at the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy and the sphere of the Nigerian private investment between the period of 1981 – 2018. Johansen co-integration approach, Error Correction Methodology (ECM) and Granger Causality text were used for the analysis in the study. The findings show that capital expenditure had positive (crowd-in) effect on Private investment while recurrent expenditure showed a negative standing on the Nigerian private investment quota. Similarly, in line with the Granger causality techniques, there are evidences to show that government recurrent expenditure, inclusive of the capital expenditure granger causes private investment in the country within the period under review. Thus, this paper posits that it is more profitable to prioritise capital spending and direct it to public infrastructural services such as electricity, ICT, education and health for active development in the delivery of services of private investment.
dc.identifier.citationAmire, C.M, Okufuwa, M.O, Amire, C. O. (2020). Government Expenditure and Private Investment in Nigeria. Ae-Funai Journal of Accounting. 6(1). 71-79.
dc.identifier.issn2635-392X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.crawforduniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/117
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAe-Funai Journal of Accounting
dc.relation.ispartofseries6; 1
dc.titleGovernment Expenditure and Private Investment in Nigeria.
dc.typeArticle
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