KOLAWOLE BASHIR OLAYINKA

Meet KOLAWOLE BASHIR OLAYINKA, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.

Specialization

Public Finance

Designation

Associate Professor / Reader

Department

Economics

Office

At the Economics department office

Visiting Hour

Appointment on Visitation important

Research Interest

Topic: Public Finance

Description: Research in Public Finance, an aspect of Public Sector Economics, entails indepth search and analysis of how government generates and spends money. Basically, it is concerned with fiscal policy of the government, and it surrounds all activities relating to government revenue e.g. taxation and borrowing and expenditure capital and recurrent . Furthermore, the research covers National Development Plans in relation to annual fiscal budget, as well as perspective plans of the government. In essence, research and analysis in public finance ultimately sensitizes government on policy issues that affect the growth and development of the economy.

Qualifications

# Certificate SchoolYear
1. Ph.D (Economics) Department of Economics, University of Ibadan 2015

Current Research

Revenue, Expenditure and Economic Growth Relationship in Nigeria: Further Evidence

Research Details

This paper examines the relationship subsisting among revenue, expenditure, and economic growth in Nigeria using the causality and ECM methodologies for the period 1981-2020. The Johansen technique affirms a long-run relationship as causality is revealed to run from oil revenue to capital expenditure, as well as, from oil revenue, non-oil revenue, capital and recurrent expenditures to economic growth. Moreover, while non-oil revenue impacts positively on economic growth contemporaneously, the ECM outcome further shows that it is the immediate past values of oil revenue and recurrent expenditure that drive economic growth in the current year. Thus, despite multiple breakpoints, it speaks to the fact that, as revenue causes expenditure, economic growth is propelled by revenue and expenditure. In other words, a positive relationship subsists among revenue, expenditure, and economic growth in Nigeria. However, in the quest for improved growth, the government should deploy oil revenue as its main channel for financing capital expenditure.Keywords: causality; co-integration; economic growth; expenditure; revenue

Biography

KOLAWOLE BASHIR is a Associate Professor / Reader at the Department of Economics

KOLAWOLE has a Ph.D in Economics from Department of Economics, University of Ibadan

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