AN ANALYSIS OF BANKS’ CREDIT ON THE NIGERIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH (1992- 20013)
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The paper examined the role of bank credit in economic growth of Nigeria. Based on the finding of the study, it was observed that bank credit has not impacted significantly on the growth of the Nigerian economy. This is attributed to the fact that banks exhibit apathy in lending to the private sector for productive purposes e.g. agricultural sector, as they prefer to lend to the short-term end of the market, e.g. commerce, which attracts quick and high rate of turnover. As a result of this, the volume of loan actually given to investors is insignificant.
Furthermore, World Bank (2007) as cited by Dalis (2010) observed that the Nigerian Banks are burdened with excess liquidity but simultaneously very cautious in providing credit to private sector. Excess liquidity exists because financial intermediaries lack investment opportunities with sufficient returns or perceive the risk in intermediating funds to be too great. Weak financial intermediation capacity has (limited access to finance for investment. Firms have been forced to rely to a high degree on self-financing. A large proportion of the total credit of deposit money banks that goes to the government are usually not for productive purposes. Most government expenditures are on transfers’ payment with little impact on productivity.
The oil sector, which dominates the Nigerian economy, has contributed immensely to the GDP of Nigeria, thus banks aggregate credit has little or no significance on the growth of the economy. In view of these, it is recommended that banks should be willing to give both short and long-term loans for productive purposes, as this will eventually lead to economic growth. Better and stronger credit culture should be promoted and sustained. There should be strong and comprehensive legal framework that will aid in monitoring the performance of credit to private sector and recovering debts owed to banks. Banks should also share among themselves; information on bad debtors and each bank should maintain a black book for this purpose. The Central bank of Nigeria should adopt direct credit control, where preferred sectors like agriculture and manufacturing sectors should be favoured in terms of granting loans.
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Appendix 1 Shaw, E.S. (1973). Financial Deepening in Economic Development. New York: Oxford University Press. SUMMARY OUTPUT |
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Regression Statistics |
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Multiple R |
0.189056188 |
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R Square |
0.035742242 |
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Adjusted R Square |
-0.028541608 |
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Standard Error |
6.00547549 |
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Observations |
17 |
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ANOVA |
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df |
SS |
MS |
F |
Significance F |
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Regression |
1 |
20.05278554 |
20.05278554 |
0.556006555 |
0.467398646 |
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Residual |
15 |
540.986038 |
36.06573587 |
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Total |
16 |
561.0388235 |
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Coefficients |
Standard Error |
t Stat |
P-value |
Lower 95% |
Upper 95% |
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Intercept |
1.764266704 |
3.01807057 |
0.584567744 |
0.567527483 |
-4.66859841 |
8.197131819 |
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GADCE % |
0.051877173 |
0.069572298 |
0.745658471 |
0.467398646 |
-0.096412668 |
0.200167014 |
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