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Trade Openness and Economic Growth in the Developing Countries: Evidence from Nigeria

This study purposed to examine the extent to which trade openness has impacted the growth of the Nigerian economy covering the period from 1981 to 2018.Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP) was used as a proxy for economic growth.Other variables of interest incorporated into the model as independent variables including trade openness exchange rate and inflation.The data for the study were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical database.The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF) was employed to ascertain the stationary of the variables, and the result revealed that the variables became s…