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Effect of Government and Private Sector Financing on the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria

Evbuomwan, Grace O. and Okoye, Lawrence U. and Eke, O. P. (2018) Effect of Government and Private Sector Financing on the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria. In: 31st IBIMA Conference.

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Abstract

The process of economic transformation and development calls for the participation of all interest groups in an economy hence this study set out to examine the effect of public and private sector finances on the development of the agricultural sector in Nigeria. The study employed an econometric procedure with the Ordinary Least Square regression technique. R-squared of 0.9921, obtained implied that 99.2 per cent of the variation in the agricultural sector real gross domestic product was explained by the six independent variables in the model. Loan granted to farmers under the agricultural credit guarantee scheme, commercial banks’ credit to the agricultural sector and Federal Government recurrent expenditure allocated to the sector impacted it positively, while the Federal Government capital expenditure allocated to the sector did not. It is recommended that all the policies put in place by the Monetary and Fiscal Authorities to encourage flow of funds to the agricultural sector be sustained and that the Federal Government should overhaul its capital budgetary processes and provisions so as to make a positive impact on the development of the sector, particularly since crude oil price has been on the decline in the last four years impacting Nigeria’s economy negatively.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: human resource risks, risk management, human resource risks prevention
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions: Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User: Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2018 09:11
Last Modified: 29 Jun 2018 09:11
URI: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/11086

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