FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA, PERFORMANCE, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA, PERFORMANCE, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

This have a look at indicates the overall performance of overseas direct funding on the producing area of the Nigeria economic system. The have a look at adopts a time collection technique to the improvement of 3 distinctive fashions namely; Manufacturing Value Added Model, Foreign direct funding, Interest price and Gross constant capital formation, from the yr 1981 to 2015.The required information had been amassed from the critical financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) 2015 statistical bulletin. The econometric version of more than one regression evaluation changed into used to check the connection among the established and impartial variable, the quick and the longer term influences of the overseas direct funding influx on Nigeria’s production area changed into analyzed the usage of OLS estimation technique. All variables could be examined to verify the absence or presence of unit roots issues the usage of ADF (Augmented Dickey-Fuller) check for the length in consideration. To check the effect of overseas direct funding (FDI), at the Manufacturing sub-area’s overall performance, the Manufacturing Value Added (MVA) could be used to proxy the overall performance withinside the production enterprise

1.1 Background of the Study

One of the essential goals of each economic system is to acquire a excessive monetary increase a good way to result in fast monetary improvement thru poverty reduction, advent of employment possibilities and whole advertising of the welfare of the citizen.

Virtually, nearly all improvement theories agree with that this monetary increase may be finished thru the buildup of bodily and human capital amongst different things. Hence, the buildup of capital can come withinside the shape of overseas direct funding (FDI) and home funding which might be the critical troubles on which this studies paintings revolves.

The Nigerian economic system has been on the very best recipient of the capital profits from the nest of the world (CBN statistical Bulletin, 2010). The motives in the back of those are certainly the big marketplace length of the economic system, the extent of its change openness amongst different motives. But current occasions withinside the usa display that such advantage may not be sustained given the prevailing socio-political opponents shape the sect of a few anti-social organization popularly called the “Boko Haram” withinside the usa which quite adverse to the monetary fitness of the country in addition to the whole increase of the monetary. This results in a snail motion of the improvement procedure and ultimately a entire over hauling of the whole system, loss of industrialization, capital flight and lack of era transfer. For example the extent of Nigeria’s proportion of overseas Direct Investment (FDI) in flows to Africa, fell from 35.3% in 2005 and stood at 14.1% in 2010 (CBN statistical Bulletin 2010). Hence, the macroeconomic surroundings of the usa is now not conducive for traders to thrive and no person will want to put money into an area in which he’ll go through capital loss irrespective of how promising and worthwhile it appears. In addition to what has been stated so far, tries could be made withinside the literature to resolve the motive of this volatility and risky float of overseas direct funding to Nigeria and the results of such volatility of universal of universal monetary development withinside the usa; amongst troubles investigated is the impact of world monetary coverage shocks and uncertainty. Theoretically, uncertainty can also additionally adversely have an effect on Foreign Direct Investment.