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- Title
FDI, REMITTANCE INFLOWS, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY: WHAT DO NIGERIAN DATA SHOW?
- Authors
ORJI, ANTHONY; OGBUABOR, JONATHAN E.; NWOSU, EMMANUEL; ANTHONY-ORJI, ONYINYE I.; OKPALA, ADAOBI J.
- Abstract
This study investigated the impact of remittance inflows and Foreign Direct Investment on economic development in Nigeria. The Phillip-Perron unit root test indicated that all the series except domestic investment were stationary at first difference. With the combination of orders of integration 1 and 0, the Autoregressive and Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model was adopted. The results revealed there is a long relationship existing amongst the variables and that Remittance inflow, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, Private Investment and Exchange Rate are significant determinants of economic development. Of these variables, Remittance inflow and Exchange rate were found to negatively influence economic development in the long run while others were positive. A Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model was also used to examine the response to shocks of Income per capita to Remittances and FDI respectively and it was found that Income per capita responds to shocks from both variables. The study recommends there is need for serious policy interventions from government to make foreign direct investment and remittances more development enhancing and not retarding.
- Subjects
FOREIGN investments; ECONOMIC development; NIGERIAN economy; FOREIGN exchange rates; AUTOREGRESSIVE models
- Publication
Journal of Academic Research in Economics, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
2066-0855
- Publication type
Article