EXPORT MARKET PENETRATION OF NIGERIAN PRODUCTS: THE MYTHS AND REALITIES (ECONOMICS PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
ABSTRACT
This study examine export market penetration of Nigeria product:
the Myths and Realities This study analyses the constraint and challenges of export market penetration and how it affect the economic development of Nigeria.
Regression analysis was used in cause of this study. Model was formulated to know the relationship between export trade, exchange rate, agriculture production, manufacturing output and bank loan to export .Secondary data was used to ascertain the correlation between the export and increase in economic growth.
The result show exchange, agriculture product and manufacturing index, play significant effect on the export penetration and their contribution to export trade is still very low. It therefore patients that government should be able to channel fund to promote local export trade in order to increases productivity of industrial sector so as to enhances international trade of Nigeria.
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The ultimate aim of the government of any country is to achieve a well-developed economy which can be depicted by the realization of macroeconomic objectives of equitable income distribution, prices stability and economic growth. Consequently, various policies and strategies can be adopted in the realization of these objectives. While some countries prefer inward looking import substitution model because it enables them to evolve their own styles of development and become master of their own fate, others believes in the adoption of export oriented strategy. Nigeria like many other developing countries had at one time or the other adopted the policy of import replacement under the philosophy of economic nationalism, have now switched to export promotion strategy because it was realized that this was more effective than import substitution in achieving a faster growth and structural upgrading of an economy. Export promotion strategy is commonly referred to by many scholars as governmental efforts to expand the volume of country’s export through export incentives in form of public subsidies, tax rebates, special credit lines and other kinds of financial and non-financial-measures designed to promote a greater level of economic activities in export industries so as to generate more foreign exchange and improve the current account of the balance of payments Todaro, (2003).
