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Empirical analysis of the linkages between the manufacturing and other sectors of the Nigerian economy
This paper estimates the linkage between the manufacturing sector and other sectors of the Nigerian economy with the aid of a more dynamic estimating tool.The paper departs from the static Leontief's input-output framework used by earlier studies and adopts the Granger causality test and the vector auto regression method, to determine the impact of changes in manufacturing output on the output of the other sectors and the effects of changes in output of other sectors on the manufacturing sector.Using quarterly time series data over the periods 1986 to 2010 the result shows a weak linkage betwe…
