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EFFECT OF COMMERCIAL BANKS’ CREDIT ALLOCATED TO AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA
Full text linkThe empirical literatures on the effect of commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector on economic growth in Nigeria are mixed. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector on economic growth in Nigeria from 2014q1 to 2020q4 using error correction model (ECM). The results of the investigation revealed that commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector had a significant positive effect on economic growth in Nigeria. A 1% increase in commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector led to 23.37% increase in real GDP in Nigeria. The commercial banks’ credit allocated to other sectors did not spur economic growth in Nigeria. The agricultural sector is the backbone of Nigerian economy. The apex bank should ensure that the commercial banks are efficient in the allocation of resources. The Central Bank of Nigeria should direct the commercial banks to allocate the highest percentage of their credit to agricultural sector in order to achieve a sustainable agri-food system and economic growth in Nigeria.
Keywords: Institutions and Economic Growth, Error Correction Model, Nigeria.
JEL Classification: E51, O43, Q14, C2
Commercial Banks’ Credit Allocated to Agricultural Sector and Economic Growth in Nigeria
Full text linkThe empirical literatures on the effect of commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector on economic growth in Nigeria are mixed. The previous studies in Nigeria did not determine the percentage of the commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector and the percentage contribution of agricultural sector to gross domestic product (GDP). The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector on economic growth in Nigeria from 2014q1 to 2020q4 using error correction model (ECM). The other objective of the study is to determine the percentage of commercial banks’ credit allocated to agricultural sector and the percentage contribution of agricultural sector to GDP in Nigeria from 2014 to 2020 using a descriptive statistics. The ECM results revealed that the commercial banks’ credit to agricultural sector had a significant positive effect on economic growth. The ECM results indicated that a 1% increase in commercial banks’ credit to agricultural sector led to 23.37% increase in real GDP in Nigeria. The results of the descriptive statistics indicated that agricultural sector was allocated 3.92% of commercial banks’ credit and agricultural sector contributed 24.58% to real GDP. The agricultural sector was allocated the lowest percentage of commercial banks’ credit than any other sector. With every 1% of sectoral allocation of commercial banks credit, the agricultural sector contributed more to GDP than any other sector. The agricultural sector that is the backbone of Nigerian economy is not accorded the priority in credit allocation. The inefficiency of commercial banks in the allocation of resources has resulted into low level of economic growth in Nigeria. The apex bank should ensure that the commercial banks are efficient in the allocation of resources. The Central Bank of Nigeria should direct the commercial banks to allocate the highest percentage of their credit to agricultural sector in order to achieve a sustainable agri-food system and economic growth by 2025 in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Electronic payment system and the growth of small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria
No full textElectronic payment system does not mean a total elimination of cash, but financial environment that minimizes the use of physical cash by providing alternative channel for making payment. The objectives of this study include; to identify the challenges those have hindered the adoption of e-payment system by small and medium scale enterprises, to investigate if e-payment system in any way enhanced the growth on small and medium scale business enterprises and finally to determine whether the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Idah Federal Constituency of Kogi State, Nigeria possess the requisite facilities and skill for e-payment transactions. The survey was carried out through the administration of questionnaire on owners and operators of small and medium scale businesses in the study area to ascertain whether the small and medium scale enterprises have started utilizing electronic based payment in their day to-day payments and business activities through Point of Sale Terminals (POS). GSM, Mobile Banking, and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card. Descriptive statistic and t-test method of analysis are used to test the hypothesis. From the result of the study, it was revealed that e-payment system significantly increases growth of SMEs in Idah federal constituency. This signifies that an efficient and modern payment system positively correlated with economic development and it is a key enabler to economic growth.
Keywords: Electronic Payment, Growth, SMEs, Nigeria
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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