The aim of this study was to ascertain the growth effects of capital inflows using investment as a transmission channel between the periods 1981 to 2016 in Nigeria. The study employed the least square regression method to analyse the data. The outcome of the research indicates that capital...

Standard open economy macro models with unemployment predict a contractionary short-run effect of international capital inflows. Empirical evidence, on the other hand, often associates such inflows with short-term booms, and developing country policy makers frequently go out of their way to...