May 2012

Official development assistance (ODA), public spending and economic growth in Ethiopia

  The objective of this research was to analyse the role of Ethiopia’s government expenditure in economic growth and the importance that ODA has played in financing government spending. The study employed both descriptive and econometric analyses. In the econometric analysis, Ram’s (1986) model is adopted to scrutinize the impact of different composition of public spending on economic growth. The...

Author(s):   Tofik Siraj

May 2012

Nigerian foreign trade policy: Its impact on non-oil exports

  The paper sets out to examine the impact of trade policy on Nigeria non-oil exports. It specifically seeks to ascertain the effect of trade policies on non-oil exports in Nigeria as well as the performance of the non-oil export sector over the period 1970 to 2010. Nigeria’s data set from the CBN statistical bulletin volume 18, (2009) and the American reserve bank during the period 1970 to 2010 were...

Author(s):   John E. Ezike and Samson Ogege