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Financing International Trade
No full textThe paper discusses the significance of world trade and techniques of financing it. It explores instruments of international trade. The paper further examined some of the problems of financing international trade and the problems of trade in Africa
Exchange rate fluctuations and the dollar problem
No full textThe paper reviews briefly recent developments in the foreign exchange markets, with particular reference to the chronic problem facing the US Dollar. This is followed by an examination of the major issues involved in the crisis of confidence and measures that might be taken to tackle the recurrent dollar problem, in a way to bring about an orderly exchange rate adjustment and smooth functioning of the international Monetary System
Banking in the eighties
No full textThe paper is an excerpts from the address of Professor Oladapo, acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos at the opening of the 13th Annual Banking Seminar held at the university of Lagos in October 1978. He discusses some of the challenges associated with lending from financial houses in Nigeria in the 1970s and hopes that Banking in the 80s would be a socially responsible financial system which will stimulate growth and creativity within the economy, and serve as an agent for mobilising the resources of society
A comparative analysis of the structure of commercial bank credit operations in Nigerian states: 1972-1975.
No full textThe objective of the paper is to analyze the state distribution of commercial bank loans and advances from 1972 to 1975. The analysis is based on the former twelve state structure, mainly because during the period covered by the study, the country was divided into twelve states. The year 1972 is chosen as a starting point because banking statistics on state basis were first available in that year. The analysis is based on the statistical returns by the banks in respect of their operations in each of the states of the federation
A stock market index for the Nigerian Stock Exchange
No full textThe paper aims to devise and compute an appropriate stock market index for the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Such an index is expected to reflect to some extent, the economic trend in the country and as the stock market develops within the entire financial superstructure it should signal some important structural changes in the economy
Statistical Section
No full textStatistics on Loans and Advances, Currency in Circulation, International Trade, Money Supply, Statement of Assets and Liabilities, Bankers\u27 Clearing Houses, Foreign Exchange, Money and Capital markets, Money and Capital markets and Public Finance, from 1973-1978
External trade indices of Nigeria.
No full textThis paper is divided broadly into four parts. The first part considers the objectives and the uses to which the indices could be put. The second part deals with a description of the methodology spelling out various techniques employed in combating conceptual as well as practical problems ranging from the source and quality of the data, selection of items, weights and formula considered relevant and suitable, down to the calculation procedure. Attention is devoted in the third part to the results that emerge including an assessment of the movements exhibited by the indicators over the reference period. The fourth part treats some problems to be considered in the future compilation of the series and the concluding remarks touch on the need to maintain continuity of the serie
A strategy for industrial within Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS).
No full textThe paper highlighted the role and import of industrialization in the social and economic development of both the developed and developing countries and at the same time attempted to analyse- albeit briefly- the concept of industrial location in the process of economic integration. The need for concerted actions particularly in terms of harmonization of the hitherto diverse and often times conflicting industrial policies in the West African subregion was underlined. In the discussion of some features of industrial location in the subregion, we noted evidence of uneven distribution of industries not only between countries but within individual member countries, and paucity of multinational enterprises geared towards industrial integration of the subregion
Address by Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, on the Occasion of the Annual Dinner of the Nigerian Institute of Bankers on Thursday, 24th June, 1976.
No full textThis is an address by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria at the annual dinner of the Nigerian Institute of Bankers in June 197
Statistical Section (June 1976)
No full textThis is a statistical representation of economic activities in Nigeria in June 197