Inclusive Growth And Entrepreneurship Development In Nigeria
Inclusive Growth And Entrepreneurship Development In Nigeria

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the impact of inclusive growth on entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. The problem is that government of Nigeria put on successive plan for entrepreneurship development in Nigeria yet there is high rate of unemployment and poverty and low gross domestic product in Nigeria. The research design is historical research design. The study used secondary source of information from Central Bank of Nigeria and National Bureau of Statistics as well as the entire population of Nigeria. The population of this study is 17878 beneficiaries of entrepreneurship training. The proxy is used for entrepreneurship development is entrepreneurship training and proxies used for inclusive growth are poverty level, gross domestic product and unemployment rate. The period of study is 35 years from 1981 to 2016. The statistical tools used are regression and correlation as well as unit root test to correct the spurious error in the sense that data is not normally distributed in the study. The study used excel and eview statistical package of 9.00 to analyse the data. The data were stationary at level and first difference. The finding is that there is long run relationship between entrepreneurship development and inclusive growth in Nigeria. Other findings were that there is a directional relationship from poverty index and entrepreneurship training in Nigeria. Unemployment rate has directional relational relationship with entrepreneurship training.

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