Threshold Effects of Import Dependence of Economic Growth in Nigeria

Oziengbe Scott Aigheyisi ()
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Oziengbe Scott Aigheyisi: University of Benin Teaching Hospital

ACTA VSFS, 2021, vol. 15, issue 2, 198-219

Abstract: This study uses annual time series data spanning 1981–2018 to investigate the threshold effects of import dependence on economic growth in Nigeria. The ordinary least squares (OLS) and the fully modified OLS (FMOLS) techniques are employed for estimation of a quadratic regression model to determine the nature of the relationship between aggregate import dependence and economic growth. It is found that the relationship is concave, that is, it follows an inverted-U shape. The conditional least squares estimator is thereafter employed to estimate the threshold model specified to determine the threshold level of import dependence. The study finds a threshold level of 26% for aggregate import dependence. Below this threshold, import dependence positively affects economic growth; above the threshold, the growth effect of import dependence is adverse. Furthermore, it is found that the long-run growth effect of Inflation is adverse, and investment is favourable to long-run economic growth. Based on these findings, the paper recommends efforts by Nigeria’s government to reduce import dependence below the estimated threshold of 26%, control inflation and encourage investment so as to enhance the growth of the nation’s economy.

Keywords: economic growth import dependence; import penetration; Nigeria; threshold regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F41 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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