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Effectiveness of Foreign Aid on the Growth of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria

Ethiopian Journal of Economics

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Title Effectiveness of Foreign Aid on the Growth of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria
 
Creator Ighodaro, CE
Nwaogwugwu, IC
 
Description This paper examined the effectiveness of foreign aid to the growth of the agricultural sector in Nigeria using the ARDL and the ECM approach and quarterly data covering the period 1981 to 2009. While all the variables used were found to be I(I), four cointegration relationships exist between the dependent and the independent variables. Contrary to expectation, the parameter estimate of foreign aid has a negative and insignificant relationship with agricultural output in the short and long run. On the contrary, savings and technological trend are significant and have positive relationship with agricultural output both in the short run and long run. A major policy implication of the result is that improved technology is imperative to the increase in agricultural output in both the short run and the long run rather than encourage foreign aid for agricultural growth in Nigeria.Keywords: Aid, Autoregressive Distributed Lag, Error Correction Model
 
Publisher Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA), 1997
 
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Date 2015-09-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/eje/article/view/121882
10.4314/eje.v22i2.
 
Source Ethiopian Journal of Economics; Vol 22, No 2 (2013); 131-146
1993-3681
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/eje/article/view/121882/111345
 
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