ABSTRACT

The project research on “the impact of government expenditure on economic growth in Nigeria” assess the successive ways Nigeria government spends her revenue, the impacts such spending have on the economy. It positive and negative impact and how much it affects the gross domestic product (GDP) in Nigeria. Most importantly, this work focuses on the impact of government expenditure on the Nigeria economy in particular and the economic growth in general. The scope of this research covers from 1990-2010, This study is strictly organized in five chapters just as fact and figures are analyzed from empirical stand point on this bases a statically and econometric approach are employed. OLS method is used in estimating. T test is used for testing the significance or regression coefficients. The Durbin Watson (DW) statistic is used to test the presences of autocorrelation from working hypothesis.