Terrorism is one of the dreaded phenomenons affecting the Nigerian people and her economy. This phenomenon has defiled many solutions. This study examined the popular held view that the "root cause of terrorism" is poverty within the period 1980-2010. That is terrorism is caused by poverty...

The rational behind this study is borne out of the doubts in the minds of Nigerians about the achievement of vision 2020 by this present administration (President Umuru Yar’Adua) due to the fact that past economic development policies that have been formulated have failed to achieve its main...

This paper is an attempt to examine the impact of globalisation on industrial performance in Nigeria over the period 1975 -2010 with the plastic firm in focus. The study period was splitted into two sub-periods, the pre-SAP and post-SAP era since the formal adoption of globalization policies...

This research thesis investigates the effects of the short run and long run causal link (Granger causality relationship) between energy consumption, economic growth and carbon emissions in Nigeria (using Nigerian data over the period 1980 – 2009) including labor, investment in gross fixed...

This study argues that monetary targeting as a strategy of monetary policy is not effective in controlling inflation in Nigeria. Before arriving at this conclusion, an econometric model of the demand for money is specified and estimated using the techniques of Ordinary Least Square on an annual...

This paper is an effort to investigate the economic justification for the adoption of the proposed policy of currency restructuring by the monetary authority in Nigeria. In order to fulfill this objective, this paper reviewed the impacts of similar policy on the Nigerian economy over the period...

This paper is an effort to fill the gap in the energy literature with an in-depth country study for Nigeria. In order to find the main driving forces affecting short and long run CO2 emission patterns and the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions in Nigerian economy over the...

This paper investigates whether bank-lending behaviour can provide a convincing explanation for the effects of monetary policy on inflation over the period 1993-2009. This period was selected on account that it marks the beginning of indirect monetary policy regime in Nigeria. Applying the ADF...