Financial development, real sector, and economic growth in Nigeria

Olajide Oyadeyi

SN Business & Economics, 2023, vol. 3, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Abstract By breaking down Nigeria’s real sector into its component parts—agriculture, manufacturing, and services—this research enriches our understanding of the relationship between financial development and real sector economic activities. The Granger-causality method was utilized to establish the direction of causality between financial and real sector growth, and a principal component analysis-based financial development index was developed to measure this relationship. The findings demonstrated that the negative effects of financial development on the real sector are temporary. The supply-leading argument is further supported by the fact that the paper demonstrated bi-directional causation from Nigeria’s financial sector to the real sectors. The study suggests that Nigeria should prioritize changes that strengthen the long-term connection between financial development and the real sector by enhancing the quality of financial services to satisfy the demands of the real sector.

Keywords: Economic growth; Real sector; Primary sector; Secondary sector; Tertiary sector; Financial development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F43 F62 G20 O10 O16 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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