Kalu Uma

Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo · Economics and Development Studies

Across the African continent especially in Nigeria, solid waste disposal has created significant environmental and health issues. Studies on household decision-making on waste disposal choices are insignificant. This study uses the most recent 2018/2019 General Household Survey (GHS)-a national representative sample of 5000 households collected by...

The consensus in the literature holds that female-headed households (FHHs) are more vulnerable to social and economic exclusion than male-headed households (MHHs). This paper investigates the socioeconomic determinants of household cooking fuel choices across MHHs and FHHs, using the rich Nigerian Demographic Health Survey data. Using the exogenous...

This study examines the relationship between economic growth and energy consumption in Nigeria by using ARDL Bound Test regression analysis. In the investigation process energy consumption, was disaggregated into electricity, coal and petroleum with growth rate of GDP data is used from 1980-2017. The findings show that petroleum and electricity var...

Agriculture being the dominant economic activity of the West African economies is responsible for the most greenhouse gasses emitted in the region. Are there heterogeneous determinants of environmental degradation across low, intermediate, and high CO2 emitters in West Africa? Considering the significance of agriculture, industrial activities, rene...

Background: There is an ongoing debate about the effects of bribery on economic performance, where strong arguments are made on the opposing sides. This article investigates the relationship between bribery and the level of workers’ wages. The study is a variant of investigations into firms’ compression of wages to pay for staff management mutually...

Purpose Are the urban and rural male-headed households (MHHs) or female-headed households (FHHs) poorer and food (in)secured? Such question is of very important policy concern in the drive towards achieving the first two of the Sustainable Development Goals. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses 2010–2012 waves of General Household Survey cr...

The study seeks to evaluate the environmental problems associated with oil exploration and exploitation in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria on one part with a focus on empirical examination of one of the variables highlighted in the literature - emission of CO2 on people’s health. With data 1980-2015 drawn from CBN bulletin, we employed OLS and 3SLS...

The study focuses on repositioning the manufacturing sub-sector in order to revive Nigeria from the problem of “growthelessness”. The expository study examined the situation of the Nigerian economy and overview of the industrial policies employed to encourage development since after independence. Many challenges such as lack of indigenous technolog...

Background/objective: The present study investigated the effect of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) intervention on burnout among English education undergraduates in southeastern Nigeria. Method: The study adopted a randomized controlled trial design. A total of 96 English education undergraduates with high burnout symptoms in the partic...

This paper has two aims. First, we measure the asymmetric effect of crude oil prices on stock returns under a regime switching framework in the context of major oil exporting countries namely: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and Kuwait. The key results from our baseline model suggest that stock returns in all...

The study focuses on the examination of the influence of migration and remittances on Nigerian economy over the years. The authors reviewed and examined the positive and negative effects of migration in Nigeria. Expository approach involving tables were employed in the examination. The study confirmed the fact that there are positive and negative e...

The study investigated the influence of monetary policy tools on economic growth of Nigeria from 1980 to 2016. Data for the study was sources from Central Bank of Nigeria statistical Bulletin of various years. Augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF) was used to ascertain the time series property. The nature of the order of integration of the dependent v...

The study focused on the persistent poverty status in Nigeria in spite of all the actions and activities directly and indirectly put in place to reduce it. Nigerian poverty statistics and government actions in tackling poverty were examined. Few countries that have succeeded in reducing poverty position were briefly examined. Specifically, we highl...

Education has been identified as a critical agent in the development of a modern society because it plays a pivotal role in training and building human capacity for the nation. It is argued “as information grows exponentially, and its incorporation in the production process becomes increasing complex, the ability to absorb, and adapt new knowledge...

The study set out to ascertain the influence of fiscal policy on unemployment and inflationreduction in Nigeria. The dependent variables wereunemployment rate and inflationrate while federal government capital expenditure, petroleum profit tax, company income tax and custom and excise duty were the independent variables. Data was sourced from Centr...

The study centered on the examination of trade openness and resources use on economic growth of Nigeria from 1981 to 2014. Data for this study were sourced from Central Accounts various issues. The time series data was tested for stationarity using Augmented Dicky-Fuller (ADF) and confirmed with Phillip Peron (PP) test for stationarity. The method...

This study sets out to examine empirically the role which government policy particularly in the areas of monetary, fiscal and exchange rate, in determining the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nigeria (1980-2014). Data for the study were collected from secondary sources and analysed using multiple regression method, Johansen co-integra...

This paper evaluates the impact of corporate administrative mechanisms on the performance indices of Nigeria deposit Money Banks. The study examines three corporate governance indices namely: board size, board composition and audit committee and bank performance indices on a sample of ten (10) deposit money banks between 2005 and 2014. Data was ana...

The study investigated the impact of capital flight on the economic development of Nigeria. Following the behavioural pattern of the variables on the basis of time series property test involving Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), we adopted Autoregressive Distributed Lagged model (ARDL) due to Pesaran and Shin [44] in the study. The result of the Auto...

This study unravels the debility in resource distributions in Nigeria emanating from insufficiency, improperly designed, lack of care, shortsightedness and attitude of leaders on road network and railway system which have thwarted and dislocated efficient and effective resource distribution. The over reliance on road network in Nigeria without qual...

The study focuses on the pattern of mal-treatment, denial of means of livelihood and lack of care of senior citizens in Nigeria due to the actions of societal resource managers over the years, which grossly impoverished this category of Nigerians. This expository work unraveled the various activities with respect to pension issue, specifically the...

In the wake of the global financial crisis, unemployment rates and openness to trade have been the subject of considerable research, especially in developing countries. This study analyses the impacts of trade policy on unemployment rates in Nigeria. Using time series data from 1970 to 2010, it adopts the vector error correction methodology. In ord...

The paper is focused on the need to go beyond the routine concept of poverty alleviation and create opportunities capable of engaging the teenagers, the youths/adults in productive activity; and also the need for adequate care for the elderly as a panacea for poverty alleviation. Many hawkers and thugs in Nigeria are teenagers who are school dropou...

The paper exposed the extent of non maintenance culture in Nigeria which has rendered many useful investments such as road network, buildings, plants, industries and other infrastructures useless to the extent of inability to support production capable of enhancing sustainable development. It was obvious that inadequate fund provision, lack of effi...

The paper focuses on the need for gaining knowledge and understanding on the different ways the owner of life talks to man, and the many benefits associated with it. It is indisputable that God speaks all the time to man, but ignorance has impeded man from proper understanding and effective use of it. Those who have been aware have helped in myriad...

The paper highlighted monetary policy transmission mechanism in Nigeria focusing on empirical studies and happenings in the country that retarded the efficiency of the Central Bank of Nigeria over the years in the pursuant of effective transmission mechanism. The empirical reviews from studies show that interest rate, credit channels and exchange r...

The study focused on the transport infrastructural repositioning as a veritable approach for sustainable development. It is our perception that the benefits associated with improved transport infrastructure have a magic wand for improving employment of resources, income generation and poverty reduction. The expository study revealed that the govern...

The study has exposed the problems of education system in Nigeria and decent qualities of education system in Japan worthy of emulation as a panacea for revamping Nigerian education system for quality manpower building. Poor education standard in Nigeria stemmed from varieties of factors that are revertible, but the authors are convinced that the a...

The study focused on finding out the extent globalization and capital account liberalization have supported Nigerian economic development from 1975 to 2009. The study employed both Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron to examine the features of the data for analysis. The state of integration of the variables led to test for co-integrat...

The study focused on the role of industrial productivity in revamping and accelerating the Nigerian economy. Real gross domestic product (RGDP) (a proxy for growth) and sub-industrial sectors' output data on crude petroleum cum natural gas (OCPN), solid mineral (OSM) and manufacturing (OMS) were obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria data bank....