The viability of public expenditure in stimulating Economic growth in Nigeria (mediating on the role of public sector)
Keywords:
Peacock and Wiseman, Public spending, economic growth, ARDL, Wagner’s lawAbstract
This paper explores the relationship between public spending and economic growth in Nigeria between 1981 and 2019. The study employs ARDL along with Granger causality test to determine the directional and dynamic relationship. The results show that social and community recurrent expenditure, social and community services capital expenditure and administration recurrent expenditure simulates Nigeria Economic growth (GDPGR), while, economic service recurrent expenditure (ESRX), economic service capital expenditure (ESCX), transfer capital expenditure and transfer recurrent expenditure deters Nigeria economic growth (GDPGR). The findings
further reveal that there is unidirectional causality that runs from both administrative capital expenditure (ADCX) and administration recurrent expenditure (ADRX) to economic growth (GDPGR). The study recommends that government should increase her spending on both recurrent and capital expenditures on social and community as well as administrative recurrent expenditure to move towards achieving vision 2030, while it should reduce the budgetary allocation to capital and recurrent expenditure on transfer, administration capital expenditure, and also reduce borrowing to reduce debt services. Finally, the government should monitor the proper disbursement of the allocated fund, block all loopholes and ensure full implementation of the
budget.
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Approach. CBN Economic and Financial Review” 43(1).
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Delhi.
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economic growth?” in Proceedings of the International Association of Agricultural
Economists Conference, Beijing, China,
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economic growth in the OECD, 1960– 1985, Journal of Theoretical Policies, (20)1,
173–204
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Nigeria. International Journal of Business and Management Review Vol. 1 No.4 pp64-
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Devarajan, D., Swaroop,V., and Hengful, Z.(1993). What the government buy?: The composition
of public spending and economic performance. World Bank working papers 1082.
Devarajan, S., Swaroop, V., Zou H., (1996). The consumption of Public Expenditure and
Economic Growth”. Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 37, pp.313-344.
Egbetunde T. and Fasanya I. (2013). Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria:
Evidence from Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag Specification. Zagreb International
Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp79-92
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a Training Programme on Fiscal Policy Planning Management in Nigeria, Organized by
NCEMA, Ibadan, Oyo state, pp.137-179.
Idenyi O.S, Obinna N.J, Agbi P.E, Ogbonnaya O.T (2016). Analysis of government expenditure
and economic growth in Nigeria: Application of Co integration Methodology. Asian
Research Journal of Arts and social sciences 1(4): 1-17
Jhingan, M. L. (2004). Advance Economic Theory. Vrinda Publications Limited, Delhi.
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MacMillan.
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economic growth in Thailand”. Journal of Economics and Economic Education
Research, Vol. 8(1), 93-104.
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(Credit Research Paper no. 00/6).
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Southern Economic Journal, (49) 783 – 792.
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Evidence from Trivariate Causality Testing. Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 8, No
1, pp 125-152.
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analysis. Public policy and Administration Research Vol.4 No. 7 97-109
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Personal RePEc Archive. http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17941/ MPRA Paper no.
17941.
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disaggregated analysis for developing countries.
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1970-2008: A Disaggregated Analysis. Business and Economics Journal, Vol. 4.
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economic growth in Nigeria: A disaggregated time series analysis. International
Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research, Vol.1 No.7 pp1-15
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Research Journal of Finance and Accounting.7 (10):27–38.
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economic management,2(1)
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studies Vol.3No. 13 pp 1-7
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Evidence from OECD Countries.
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economic growth nexus: evidence from Nigeria. Business and Management Research
Vol.5 No.4 56-61
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Further evidence from Nigeria. Journal of Economics and International Finance. Vol 5
(4) pp.146-154
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Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, 12(3).
Oziengbe, S. A. (2013). The relative impacts of federal capital and recurrent expenditures on
Nigeria’s economy (1980-2011). American Journal of Economics, 3(5), 210-221.
Peacock, A.T. & Wiseman, J. (1961): The growth of public expenditure in the United Kingdom,
Princeton university press, Princeton, N.J.
Peacock, A. and J. Wiseman (1979): "Approaches to the Analysis of Government Expenditures
Growth”. Public Finance Quarterly, 3-23.
Peacock, A. (Eds.): Classics in the theory of public finance. New York, Macmillan.
Robinson, M. O., Eravwoke K. E. & Ukavwe, A. (2014). Government expenditures and economic
growth: The Nigerian experience. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 5(10), 89-
94.
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the OECS; A Disaggregated approach, World Bank Research.
Usman A, Mobolaji H.I, Kilishi A.A, Yaru M.A, Yakubu T.A (2011). Public expenditure and
economic growth in Nigeria. Asian Economic and Financial review. 1(3), pp 104-113
Wagner, A., (1883), “Three Extracts on Public Finance”. Translated and reprinted in R.A.
Musgrave and A.T. Peacock (eds), Classics in the Theory of Public Finance, London:
Macmillan, 1958.
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