Chinasa Urama

• University of Nigeria

In line with earlier research on economic development, which viewed development as a process of structural modification of the productive structure, this study concentrates on economic complexity and its role in the developmental process. We studied how economic complexity and economic governance institutions affect sectoral performance in Africa,...

The authors are concerned about poor utilization of health facility during pregnancy and delivery in Nigeria which are contributing to high incidence of maternal mortality. The causes of the poor utilization of health facility during delivery were examined so as to proffer policy solution on how to overcome the high incidence of maternal mortality...

COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a lot of global challenges not only to health but also to other economic activities. The emergence of this pandemic posed disruption in economic activities globally and sub-Saharan Africa countries (SSA) in particular. In order to curtail the spread of the disease, most governments’ imposed restrictions on the movement...

The spread of coronavirus disease has globally affected all aspects of lives. Its impact on the environment and climate change in particular cannot be over-emphasized. Within a few months of trying to contain the spread of the disease, carbon dioxide emissions across the world decreased drastically to about one billion tons from the recorded 2019 i...

Foreign capital inflows are major forms of resource transfer from the developed to the developing countries where they are usually found to be more productive and the result can be positive or negative. Hence, the work set out to empirically investigate the effect of foreign capital inflows and some selected macroeconomic variables on economic grow...

Women’s labour force participation is an aspect of empowerment and a leeway to achieving the SDGs due to the contribution of women’s labour to economic growth. This study investigated the impact of women labour force participation on economic growth in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Important lessons were drawn from Israel as to how Israel ha...

It is not uncommon to find an outlier in the response variable in linear regression. Such a deviant value needs to be detected and scrutinized to find out why it is not in agreement with its fitted value. Srikantan [1] has developed a test statistic for detecting the presence of an outlier in the response variable in a multiple linear regression mo...

Man's daily life is characterised by his waiting for services thus this study is aimed at finding ways of reducing the queues for optimal and effective services rendered. In a nutshell, the objective of this study is to examine the efficiency in the services rendered by some banks in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka campus branch thereby seeing to...

Education and knowledge have become the prerequisites for the growth and development of any economy or region. Knowledge is a liberator of individuals and societies from human poverty and is a precondition for rapid advancement in today's global knowledge economy (KE). Any nation or region which does not key into the global KE trend may find it ver...

Malaria has been found to be a significant contributor to the poor health problem in Nigeria and in Africa. It kills people more than any other infectious disease and about 80% of Nigerian population is exposed to malaria. Several factors influence the choices of households’ treatment provider. This study examines the choices and determinants of ma...

The World Bank intervened in Nigeria agriculture in 2009 to increase productivity in 5 farm areas, namely-poultry, rice, maize, cashew and pineapple farming through the value chain strategy. Agricultural activity was segmented and farmers were encouraged to go into one farm operation only. Proponents of the segmentation argue that it holds the key...

Abstract Background: Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa has consistently remained the least when compared to any other region in the world. Countries in the region have received a lot of grants in form of aids to boost their capital accumulation; yet there is slow growth in most parts of the region. Many countries have implemented the World Bank...

Background: Health burden in developing countries is worsened by the limited coverage of health insurance. This leaves out-of-pocket spending as the major means of healthcare financing in these countries. Rural households in Nigerian suffer constrained access to quality healthcare, do not benefit significantly from health insurance and constitute a...

Using modified consumer spending model and data that span the period of 1981-2011, the study examines the effects of interest and inflation rates (proxy-consumer price index) on consumer spending. The study extended its investigation into the causal relationship between consumer spending (proxy; private consumption expenditure [PCE]), interest and...