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Investigating how human capital moderates the link between globalisation and industrialisation in Nigeria
Despite decades of globalisation exposure, Nigeria’s industrial base has remained shallow and structurally fragile, raising fundamental questions about whether openness alone can drive manufacturing-led development or whether its productive potential depends critically on the quality of human capital available to harness it. This study investigates how human capital moderates the relationship between globalisation and industrialisation in Nigeria using annual data spanning 1981 to 2022, with industrialisation proxied by manufacturing value added, globalisation by the KOF globalisation index, a…
