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The empirical analysis of agricultural exports and economic growth in Nigeria

Agriculture is both the main sector that is expected to provide employment to large segments of the population and the key to sustained economic growth of the countries. This study presented an empirical analysis of the effect of Agricultural Exports on economic growth of Nigeria. The model built for the study proxy gross domestic product as the endogenous variable measuring economic growth as a function of real exchange rate, real Agricultural exports, Index of Trade Openness and Inflation rate as the exogenous variables. Annual time series data was gathered from Central Bank of Nigeria Stati…