The importance of regional integration in stimulating foreign direct investment cannot be overemphasized. With a special focus on the ASEAN countries, this research paper investigates the role of regional integration in attracting foreign direct investment. We bring a novelty to this paper by...

This research investigates whether women entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) in Nigeria are marginalized in formal credit markets compared to their male counterparts. The study also investigates the impact of credit access on the performance of enterprises. The study uses...

This paper empirically estimates the impact of ICT usage on unemployment rate in Nigeria from 1985-2015. Adopting a classical linear regression model with data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the results reveal that within the period under review, ICT had a significant positive...

The main focus of this study is to ascertain the impact of access to formal credit on enterprise performance. The study uses Nigerian Enterprise Surveys data for 2010 to construct a direct measure of credit constraint. From propensity score estimations, the results show that access to formal...

This study investigated the determinants of bank savings in Nigeria as well as examined the impact of bank savings and bank credits on Nigeria's economic growth from 1970-2006. We adopted two impact models; Distributed Lag-Error Correction Model (DL-ECM) and Distributed Model. The empirical...

This study is undertaken to determine the relative impacts of the uncertainty of macroeconomic variables on investment and make policy recommendations that may help dampen their fluctuations. In the study, generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model was applied in the...