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Does Composition of Government Spending Matter to Economic Growth in Nigeria? Evidence from Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds Test

Euro-Asian Journal of Economics and Finance

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Title Does Composition of Government Spending Matter to Economic Growth in Nigeria? Evidence from Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds Test
 
Creator Oshota, Sebil Olalekan
 
Subject Government expenditure, Economic growth, Autoregressive distributed lag, Real GDP
 
Description This paper assesses the impact of the composition of government spending on economic growth in Nigeria using autoregressive distributed lag for the periods between 1980 and 2012. We found that the various types of government spending have different impact on economic growth. In view of the coefficient of the variables, the interpretation holds that an increase in administrative, health and transport and communication expenditure causes improvement in the economic output while expenditure on agriculture significantly reduces economic growth in the long run. The estimated short-run results revealed that the health and transport and communication expenditure have significant negative effect on real GDP. Administrative expenditure and education expenditure have no impact in the short run while agriculture has a significant short run impact on economic growth.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research
 
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Date 2014-10-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/eajef/article/view/326
 
Source Euro-Asian Journal of Economics and Finance; Vol 2, No 4 (2014): October; 324-334
2310-4929
2310-0184
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/eajef/article/view/326/342
 
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