NDLI: Government spending on infrastructure and economic growth in Nigeria

Content Provider	Taylor & Francis Online
Author	Babatunde, Shakirat Adepeju
Abstract	This study aims to investigate government spending on infrastructure. Both primary and secondary data are used for the study. The secondary data comprise of reported annual spending on selected infrastructure and annual Gross Domestic Products for 1980 to 2016 for Nigeria. The data treatments used for the secondary data are unit root and co- integration tests using Augmented Dickey–Fuller and Phillip–Perron model. Weighted least square was used to test the sample of 37-year annual time series using vector error correction model. For the primary data, a sample of 242 respondents is utilised for the study. Statistical random sampling was used for the sample selection. The data analysis was done with descriptive statistics. Findings from the study indicate that government spending on transport and communication, education and health infrastructure has significant effects on economic growth; spending on agriculture and natural resources infrastructure recorded a significant inverse effect on economic growth in Nigeria. An element of fiscal illusion was observed in the government spending on agriculture and natural resources indicating that government is not contributing as much as the private sector in spending on agriculture and natural resources infrastructure in Nigeria.
Starting Page	997
Ending Page	1014
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
ISSN	1331677X 18489664
DOI	10.1080/1331677X.2018.1436453
Journal	Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Routledge
Publisher Date	2018-05-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Economic growth Fiscal illusion Government spending Infrastructure Agriculture M: Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics H: Public Economics Q: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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