Managing the Nigerian Economy through Fiscal Deficit
Umar Bala,
Badamasi Salihu Uba,
Adamu Yahuza Haruna
Abstract:This study examined how fiscal deficit, exchange rate, and inflation rate impacted the economic growth of the Nigerian economy from 1980 to 2019. The cointegration connection in the study was discovered using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test. The analysis found that, while inflation and the exchange rate have a positive and significant relationship with the Nigerian economy, the fiscal deficit has a negative but relatively insignificant effect on the country's GDP. The Nigerian government s… Show more
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