Nexus on Fiscal Deficits and Economic Development in Nigeria: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Analysis
This study examines the dynamic relationship between fiscal deficits and economic development in Nigeria using annual time-series data for 1990–2023 and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) framework. Economic development is proxied by GDP growth (GDPG), while fiscal deficit (FD), GDP per capita growth (GDPPCG), h...