This paper shows that the attainment and sustenance of full employment in a modern economy is dependent on the quality of political leaders, their choice of discount rate and the institutional restrictions that place a limit on predation of public resources or it conversion to private use. In...

The principal purpose of this essay is to examine the critical barriers militating against the growth of SMEs in Nigeria. Using purely descriptive approach, we examined the new perception of SMEs and their place within the neoclassical literature. Within the Nigerian context, we identified...

This study examines causal impact of 1976 Universal Primary Education (UPE) on individual schooling attainment in the Nigeria. This study exploits the quasi-natural experiment offered by the large-scale government investment in Universal Primary Education between 1976 and 1981 to confront the...

In this study attempt to estimate the impact of schooling attainment on an important indicator of labour market performance: wealth. OLS and IV regressions produced economically and statistically significant estimates, with OLS estimate of about 18 percent and IV estimate of about 30 percent...

This study examines the impact of individual schooling attainment on well-defined vulnerability indicators of individuals' expectation of future economic wellbeing, and frequency of access to food, water, healthcare, cooking fuel and cash in the past one year. OLS estimates, after correcting for...

In this study, we investigate the extent to which female education could help in the expansion of healthcare coverage through enrolment for National Healthcare Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The major finding is that female schooling is positively and significantly correlated with enrolment for NHIS....