TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND MANUFACTURED EXPORT IN NIGERIA

Tope Isaac Awe ()
Additional contact information
Tope Isaac Awe: College of Education, Ikere - Ekiti.

No 8110264, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between total factor productivity and manufactured export in Nigeria between 1973 and 2009. The study made use of time series data and adopted vector autoregressive (VAR) Model with its forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD) in investigating shock transmission among TFP and manufactured export. The study also estimates TFP in Nigeria using non-parametric approach. The empirical finding in the study revealed that TFP in Nigeria had been low and unstable, indicating a situation of poor and unstable technological growth in Nigeria. The study also found that both manufactured export and import of capital goods exhibited positive relationship with TFP in Nigeria. The findings also showed the existence of bi-directional causality between Total factor productivity and manufactured export in Nigeria. The paper recommended that government should improve technological efficiency i.e. TFP and import of capital goods in order to experience improvement in Nigeria manufactured export, government should also take drastic step in improving the growth of per capita output .

Keywords: Total; Factor; Productivity; and; Manufactured; Export (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2018-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff and nep-ore
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 44th International Academic Conference, Vienna, Nov 2018, pages 49-66

Downloads: (external link)
https://iises.net/proceedings/44th-international-a ... 81&iid=005&rid=10264 First version, 2018

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:iacpro:8110264

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klara Cermakova ().