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The Nigerian experience with public sector finance management demonstrates fiscal irresponsibility. In Nigeria, the public sector is comprised of the Federal, State, and Local governments, as well as parastatals and organizations that provide public goods and services. Nigeria's public sector, with its diverse financing sources, plays a critical role in economic management via the creation and execution of economic policies, efficient budgeting and planning targeted at attaining domestic and external balancing goals. The purpose of this research was to determine the influence of public sector financial management on the sustainability of economic development in Nigeria. The research examined the influence on real gross domestic product of total federally collected income and total government spending. The Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) technique was used to analyze data spanning the years 1986 to 2020. To begin, the findings indicate that there is no long-run association between public sector financial management and the sustainability of economic development in Nigeria. Second, overall federal revenue was shown to have a positive association with real gross domestic product. Thirdly, public sector financial management has no discernible influence on the sustainability of economic development in Nigeria. This report recommends that the ideal of sound public sector financial management be embraced in order to strengthen the sustainability of economic development in Nigeria via an effective, efficient, and transparent public account management system.

This study empirically explored the short run and long run relationship between stock market development and economic growth by comparing two leading emerging economies in Africa: Nigeria and South Africa from 1981 to 2015. Growth rate of gross domestic product was used to measure economic growth, while stock market development was surrogated by market capitalization ratio to gross domestic product and stock value traded ratio. Data were carefully sourced from World Bank development indicators of both countries. The ARDL co-integration divulged equilibrium long run relationship between stock market development and economic growth in Nigeria but not for South Africa. In both short and long run, there was a positive but insignificant relationship between stock market development and economic growth in Nigeria and South Africa. The granger causality analysis deduced that economic growth of South Africa is significantly affected by market capitalization but not so in Nigeria. The variation in economic growth owing to fluctuation in stock market development indices were observed to be insignificant for both Nigeria and South Africa. The study concluded that stock market development is relevant to economic growth as postulated in theoretical literature. Information disclosure in the stock markets of both countries need to be improve upon in an attempt to reducing information asymmetries. The availability of vital information of listed firms to insiders in the market hinders foreign investments. The non-availability of rating agencies and of a well-defined structure of regulation handicap investors from adequate assessment of firms' risk priori to investing their funds.

This study on camaraderie reconnaissance explored the long run relationship between stock market development and economic growth in Nigeria from 1981 to 2015. Market capitalization ratio and turnover ratio were used to measure the depth of development of Nigeria's stock market, whereas growth rate of real gross domestic product facets economic growth. Secondary data were sourced from Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) were analysed using Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model. From the analysis performed, the depth of development in Nigeria's stock market has positive but insignificant relationship with economic growth both in short and long run. The granger causality analysis dispelled the adeptness of Nigeria stock market to propel growth. Stock market is growth inducing but in the context of Nigeria, economic growth is independent of stock market operation. The government need to steadfastly tackle inhibiting factors such as infrastructural inadequacy, weak institutional and regulatory framework encumbering the stock market from realization of its objective of capital mobilization for economic growth.

In this study, the empirical effect of monetary policy tools on performance of the Nigerian capital market was re-examined. The real effect of monetary policy tools on capital market performance is still not clear both from theoretical and empirical background, especially in emerging economies like Nigeria. Explicitly, this study evaluated the effect of monetary policy rate (the rate at the Central Bank of Nigeria extend credit facility to other financial institutions operating in the country), cash reserve ratio, liquidity ratio and loan to deposit ratio on the performance of the Nigerian capital market. Nigerian Stock Exchange and Central Bank of Nigeria annual reports of various edition supplied the relevant data for analysis. The Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) was the technique applied in estimating the model and for co-integration assessment, while granger causality analysis aided in ascertaining the effect of monetary policy tools on capital market performance. The result of the analysis illustrated that monetary policy tools and capital market performance in Nigeria are not co-integrated. The study also found that Nigerian capital market performance is not significantly affected by monetary policy announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria rather, it is monetary policy rate that is significantly influenced by performance of the capital market. Based on the application of a superior methodology by way of ARDL in data analysis, the Central Bank of Nigeria should be cautious and properly consider the prevailing macroeconomic condition in monetary policy decision, especially with regard to liquidity ratio because of its potential in fuelling or deterring inflation which affects prices of stocks in the capital market.

Purpose: This article presents a study on the effect of fiscal policy on stock market development in an emerging West African economy with an emphasis on Nigeria for the period of 1986 to 2018. Specifically, we evaluated the effect of fiscal deficit on all share index including government total expenditure on market capitalization ratio, the value of stock traded, and turnover ratio using data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). Methods: The Auto-regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) was the estimation technique employed in ascertaining the nature of the short-run relationship between fiscal policy and stock market development indices, whereas the effect of fiscal policy on stock market development was actualized under the granger causality analysis. Results: The result of the analysis revealed that fiscal deficit has no significant effect on all share index; government total expenditure has no significant effect on stock market capitalization ratio; government total expenditure has a significant effect on the value of stock traded ratio; government total expenditure has no significant effect on the stock market turnover ratio. Implication: Government should implement its fiscal policies to carefully accommodate the development of the stock market, as changes in fiscal policy affect the overall activities in the market and ultimately the economy.

Purpose: This paper presents an analysis of the effect of non-oil exports on the manufacturing sector growth in an oil-rich country in Africa – Nigeria from 1986 to 2018. In clear terms, we evaluated how manufacturing sector capacity utilization is affected by non-oil exports. Methods: The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimation technique was applied in estimating the model and was lagged by two years. The long-run relationship was determined using the traditional Johansen co-integration methodology. How manufacturing sector growth is affected by non-oil exports was evaluated using the Granger Causality technique. The Augmented Dicky-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron tests were applied to check the stationarity properties of the data. Results: The growth in the manufacturing sector in Nigeria has not been significantly affected by non-oil export despite the various non-oil export promotion strategies initiated by the government. Implication: A major implication of the finding is that the cost and access to financial services for non-oil exporters should be reduced or relaxed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. High-interest rates charged by commercial banks and little disbursement characterized by the volume of commercial banks credit affect manufacturing firms concerning acquiring modern plants and machinery which results in a poor quality of non-oil exports.

In this paper, we determined the effect of fiscal deficit on selected macroeconomic variables in Nigeria by specifically evaluating the effect of fiscal deficit on gross domestic product, money supply and inflation. To achieve these objectives, we employed various econometric techniques such as unit root test, Johansen co-integration, granger causality test in which variations in gross domestic product, money supply and inflation were regressed on fiscal deficit and exchange rate using time series data from 1981 to 2015. Secondary data casing the time frame were collected from Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin. The result of the analysis revealed that fiscal deficit has no significant effect on gross domestic product, money supply and inflation in Nigeria. The finding also shows that there is a positive insignificant relationship between fiscal deficit and gross domestic product. This is in line with the Keynesian postulation of the existence of positive relationship between fiscal deficit and macroeconomic variables. Based on the findings, government should allocate and effectively monitor funds sourced as a result of fiscal deficit to providing critical economic infrastructures such as electricity, access road, health, communication among others to reap the benefits associated with fiscal deficit. Monetary policy should be structured in such a way as to compliment fiscal policy so that the level of inflation would be lowered whenever government relies majorly on fiscal deficit as an instrument of fiscal policy. Article visualizations:

In this paper, we determine the effect of fiscal deficit on selected macroeconomic variables in Nigeria by specifically evaluating the effect of fiscal deficit on gross domestic product, money supply and inflation. To achieve these objectives, we employed various econometric techniques such as unit root test, Johansen co-integration, granger causality test in which variations in gross domestic product; money supply and inflation were regressed on fiscal deficit and exchange rate using time series data from 1981 to 2015. Secondary data casing the time frame were collected from Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin. The result of the analysis reveals that fiscal deficit has no significant effect on gross domestic product, money supply and inflation in Nigeria. The finding also shows that there is a positive insignificant relationship between fiscal deficit and gross domestic product which measure the growth of an economy at given period of time. This is in line with the Keynesian postulation of the existence of positive relationship between fiscal deficit and macroeconomic variables. Based on the findings, government should allocate and effectively monitor funds sourced as a result of fiscal deficit to providing critical economic infrastructures such as electricity, access road, health, communication among others to reap the benefits associated with fiscal deficit. Monetary policy should be structured in such a way as to compliment fiscal policy so that the level of inflation would be lowered whenever government relies majorly on fiscal deficit as an instrument of fiscal policy.