Abstract
This
study analyzed the effect of government expenditure on infrastructural
development in Nigeria from 1990-2018, the study adopted the use of augmented
dickey and fuller test for stationarity test to ascertain the individual
parameters stationarity level, descriptive statistics was used to capture the
collective variation and behavior ofthe series adopted for the study. The study
implored the use ofordinary least square estimate to evaluate the effect
ofgovernment expenditure on infrastructural development in Nigeria. The main
findings of this study is summarized as follows: i) government expenditure on
agriculture has positive and significantly influence growth rate per capital
during the period of this investigation, ii) government expenditure on economic
services was negative but significant at 03.38 Percent, iii) government
expenditure on social and community services has a negative influence over
growth rate of per capita and iv) the result of government transfer for the
period is positive, but insignificantly influence changes in growth rate of per
capita income for the period of this investigation. Based on the findings of
the study, the following recommendations are postulated for the study
recommends that: government should endeavor to increase the budgetary
allocation and expenditure to the sector, hence government expenditure on
agriculture is positively and significantly related to the growth rate of per
capita income for the period of this empirical evaluation. The government
should therefore enact favourable policies that will favour the agricultural
sector; the outcome of government expenditures on economic services was
negative, which does not satisfy the apriori expectations of the study. It was
expected that government expenditures on economic services will have positive
and significant effect on growth rate of per capita income, hence it is advised
that the government should regulate her expenses over economic services in the
country over time; and finally, transfer expenditure is positively influencing
growth rate of per capita income during the investigative period ofthis study,
the government should get more involved in the use oftransfers, hence it
positively influences changes in growth rate ofper capita income
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