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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has witnessed a rapid inflow of remittances in recent times. ECOWAS accounts for about 40% of remittances flown to SSA. Despite the huge inflow of remittances in the ECOWAS region, sustainable economic growth has remained a bane and mirage in the region. To this end, this study examines the effect of remittances on economic growth in ECOWAS, with an extension to country differences on value receipts (high and low recipients). The study employed differenced generalised method of moments (GMM) and fixed/random effect estimators between 2015 and 2022. The data for this study were accessed from the World Development Indicator (WDI) database of the World Bank. The results indicate that remittances are the main growth drivers in ECOWAS, such that remittances significantly improve economic growth. This, therefore, suggests that policy stakeholders are advised to eliminate or significantly reduce bottlenecks associated with remitting money from overseas by migrants. This will reduce the time it takes for monies send by migrants to reach the recipients.
This study investigates the influence of fuel subsidy removal and food inflation on household welfare in Nigeria from June 2023 to December 2025, covering the post-subsidy removal era, which began on May 29, 2023. Monthly secondary data on household consumption expenditure (HCE), fuel pump price (FPP), consumer price index (CPI), and exchange rate (EXR) were obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), and the Central Bank of Nigeria. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Phillips-Perron (PP), and KPSS unit root tests demonstrate that all variables are integrated to order one [I(1)]. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach validates cointegration, while an Error Correction Model (ECM) was calculated to separate short-run dynamics from long-run equilibrium effects. Results show that fuel pump prices, food inflation, and currency rate depreciation all have a negative long-run impact on real household consumption expenditure, with elasticities of -0.483, -0.325, and -0.219, respectively. The ECM value of -0.412 indicates a reasonably rapid correction of around 41% of any disequilibrium every month. Diagnostic tests confirm model stability, the absence of serial correlation, and parameter consistency across the estimation horizon. The findings emphasize the importance of targeted social protection systems, transparent downstream petroleum pricing regulation, and currency rate stabilization in Nigeria's subsidy reform.
Onyekachi Sunday Ajah, Geraldine Nzeribe, and Uju Ezenekwe
This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and under-five mortality in Nigeria from 1990 to 2024. Annual time-series data were analyzed using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds-testing approach and an error correction model. The bounds test confirmed a long-run relationship among the variables. Long-run results indicate that renewable energy consumption, female education, and urbanization have positive and significant relationships with under-five mortality, while electricity access, GDP per capita, and government health expenditure have negative and significant relationships. Non-renewable energy consumption and governance are statistically insignificant. In the short run, electricity access, government health expenditure, female education, and urbanization are negatively associated with under-five mortality. The error correction term of -0.4628 indicates that approximately 46.28% of disequilibrium was corrected each period. The study recommends expanding reliable electricity access, improving healthcare financing, and integrating energy policies with maternal and child healthcare interventions.
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