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ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A CO-INTEGRATION APPROACH
The government incurs both capital and recurrent expenditures so as to bring about the development of the Nigerian economy. Coupled with this is the fact that electricity power plays an important role in ensuring that aggregate output increases and the welfare of the people is affected positively. This study sets out to examine the long run relationship between electricity consumption, government expenditure and sustainable development in Nigeria employing the Johansen co-integration, Vector Error Correction Mechanism (VECM) and Granger causality estimation techniques. Secondary data were obta…
