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Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Nigeria: An Application of ARDL Model
(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Abdullahi, S.; Jibir, A.
Since the oil boom of 1970’s, oil sector remained the dominant sector in the Nigerian Economy accounting for measure shares of export, revenue and foreign exchange earnings. This over dependence on oil has subjected the economy to high level of economic instability in response to external disturbances. A lot of efforts have been made by the government to diversify the economy, but failed due to corruption and lack of proper policy implementation. Most of the goods exported from Nigeria to other countries are primary commodities whose prices are highly volatile. Export diversification has a lot of advantages which include: boosting the country’s output, higher per capita income, rising foreign direct investment, improvement of terms of trade, reduction of export instability, stablisation of export earnings, increase in productivity among others. The study examines the long run and short run dynamic effects of export diversification on economic growth in Nigeria over the periods 1970 to 2015 using Autoregressive Distributed Lagged Model. The findings of the study revealed that export diversification has significant positive impact on per capita income, foreign direct investment and economic growth both in the short run and long run. The study therefore, recommended that research and development as well as export promotion strategies should be properly designed and implemented
Export Diversification and Economic Growth in Nigeria: An Application of SVAR Model
(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Abdullahi, S.; Jibir, A.
Since the oil boom of 1970’s, oil sector remained the dominant sector in the Nigerian Economy accounting for measure shares of export, revenue and foreign exchange earnings. This over dependence on oil has subjected the economy to high level of economic instability in response to external disturbances. A lot of efforts have been made by the government to diversify the economy, but failed due to corruption and lack of proper implementation. Most of the goods exported from Nigeria to other countries are primary commodities whose prices are highly volatile. Export diversification has a lot of advantages which include: boosting the country’s output, higher per capita income, rising foreign direct investment, improvement of terms of trade, reduction of export instability, stablisation of export earnings, increase in productivity among others. The study examines the long run and short run dynamic effects of export diversification on economic growth in Nigeria over the periods 1970 to 2015 using Autoregressive Distributed Lagged Model. The findings of the study revealed that export diversification has significant positive impact on per capita income, foreign direct investment and economic growth both in the short run and long run. The study therefore, recommended that research and development as well as export promotion strategies should be properly designed and implemented.
Human Capital and Labour Productivity: The case of Nigeria
(4th International Conference on Social Sciences 2018, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Jibir, A.; Abdu, M.; Buba, A.; Bello, F.; Hassan, A.A.
Human capital is nowadays considered as a key element that can be utilized to achieve organisational objectives. Firms always try to effectively to managed their workforce through human capital development in order to achieve not only business objectives but also business survival and sustainability. It is important to study what factors influence the productivity of firms and the size of the influence since the productivity of firms is recognized as the most important factor determining economic wellbeing at the regional as well as the national level. Firms are naturally influenced by their own attributes and resources. Thus, the study aims to investigate the role of human capital components on labour productivity among firms in Nigeria. The study uses Nigeria Enterprise Survey data set covering 2640 business establishments, involved mainly in retail, food, hotel and restaurant, furniture, non-metallic mineral products, garment and publishing, printing, and recorded media. The study used generalized least squares to estimate the specified model. Empirical results from the study indicate that physical capital, employee’s education, promotion, labour earnings, as well as research and development in Nigeria were positively associated with labour productivity. These results have important policy implications for the targeting policy prescriptions to increase business enterprises’ productivity and competitiveness. The study recommends that firms and government should invest more on human capital through training, education, seminars, R&D and workshops for the continued development of business activities in Nigeria.
Mediating the Effect of Working Capital on the Relationship between Entrepreneurship Education and Small Business Management in Gombe State
(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Jibir, A.; Ahmed, I.; Bakari, M.A.; Abdullahi, S.
This study is embarked upon to examine the effect of entrepreneurship education on small business management mediated by the size of working capital available to the small businesses in Gombe metropolitan city in Gombe state, Nigeria. The study aimed at examining whether size of working capital of small businesses will mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship education and small business management. This study is important because researches conducted indicated that entrepreneurship education alone did not influence small business management in Gombe state but by introduction of working capiatal as a mediator a very significant influence resulted of entrepreneurship education on small business management. Two hundred and sixteen (216) questionnaires were administered to fifty (50) small businesses managers in Gombe so as to ascertain their perception in this regard. The study applied simple random sampling. Data were interpreted and analysed using Multiple Regression technique. The major findings of the study showed that there is a strong relationship between entrepreneurship education and small business management and that working capital serves as a good mediator between the dependent and independent variables of this study (i.e. the higher the size working capital available to small business managers the higher the effect of entrepreneurship education on small business management success and vice-vasa). The study further availed that entrepreneurs in Gombe State does not have adequate access to working capital at their disposal which will pave ways for exploiting their business opportnities The paper recommended that federal and state government should gear more efforts in providing access to soft loans to increase chances to small businesses to enable them increase working capital for successful business management, economic growth and development. Finally, the study pointed out areas to consider for future research.