TY - JOUR TI - Monetary Policy and its Effectiveness on Economic Development in Nigeria UR - http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/7744/ N2 - Monetary Policy play special roles in any developing country and one of the special roles is to control the supply of money with the purpose of promoting economic growth and price stability. Monetary policy in a simplified analysis amount to the determination of the optimal quantity of money or in a "dynamic" sense, the optimal rate of growth money stock in an economy. But there is more to monetary policy than the impact of monetary policy on macroeconomic outcome in Nigeria, so as to draw useful lessons from her inception. In demonstrating the application of ordinary least square method, the multiple linear regression analysis will be used with gross domestic product, inflation rate while exchange rate, interest rate and money supply as the explanatory variables. The data for the study was therefore obtained form the Central Bank of Nigeria publications. The result gotten shows that while exchange rate, interest rate and money supply is significant in impacting the economy, inflation proves otherwise. Hence the study recommends amongst others that Monetary policies should be used to create a favourable movement investment climate by facilitating the emergency of market based interest rate and exchange rate regimes that attract both domestic and foreign investments, create jobs, promote non oil export and revive industries that are currently operation far below installed capacity SN - 1993-5250 VL - 10 JF - International Business Managemnet KW - Monetary Policy KW - Growth KW - Development KW - Optimal Rate KW - Foreign Investment AV - public PB - Medwell Journals EP - 5340 A1 - Akinjare, Victoria Abosede A1 - Babajide, A. A A1 - Isibor, Areghan Akhanolu A1 - Okafor, Tochukwu Chibuzor Y1 - 2016/// IS - 22 SP - 5336 ID - eprints7744 ER -