June 2019

Capital inflows, manufacturing exports and economic growth in Nigeria: A threshold regression analysis

The study examined the optimal level of capital inflows for manufacturing exports and economic growth in Nigeria. Annual data from 1981-2017 on foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign portfolio investment (FPI), cross border borrowing CBB (components of capital inflows), financial sector development (FSD), real gross domestic product (RGDP) and manufacturing exports (MEX) were sourced from various issues of the Central...

Author(s): Kehinde Elizabeth JOSEPH, Abiodun Sunday OLAYIWOLA and Dauda Olalekan YINUSA