This article deals with the modelling of growth rate time series in Nigeria with a view of
detecting its statistical properties, structural breaks and non-linearities. We employ both …

This paper is a comparative analysis of Nigeria and Kenya, the largest economies in West
and East Africa respectively, on the basis of the time series properties of their economic …

This paper starts with an estimation of the effects of bank credit on economic growth in
Mauritius. Existing empirical studies in Mauritius have used fixed coefficient models (see …

This article focuses on the synthesis of conditional dependence structure of recursive
Bayesian estimation of dynamic state space models with time-varying parameters using a …

This study investigates the impact of economic growth on employment and poverty in
Nigeria, as a first approximation towards inclusive growth architecture. Using the Ordinary …

Abstract ENGLISH SUMMARY: The empirical literature has found mixed evidence of the
effects of finance on growth. A comprehensive review by Levine (2005) found that more …

Considerable attention has been devoted in literature to the estimation of linear models with
constant location parameters. However, many phenomena in real life situations exhibit a …

The relationship between economic development and energy in Nigeria is examined in this
work. An econometric model is developed to ccount for the factors affecting economic growth …

Over the years, there has been a debate whether there is a need to beef up the level of
foreign reserves or trim them down, and this debate is becoming more interesting especially …

Studies on the relationship between the informal economy and economic growth have been
inconclusive as to whether the positive or negative relationship dominates. These results are …