Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228019 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/20/042
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The Covid-19 pandemic has generated shocks that have caused economic fluctuations globally, calling for an understanding of the behaviour of macroeconomic variables. This study presents an early review of the macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The aggregate supply and aggregate demand (AS-AD) model provides the theoretical motivation for the study. From the findings, while the number of infected cases reflects significant correlations with economic activity from the perspective of a trend analysis, the estimates from dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) show that nexuses between the number of confirmed cases and attendant macroeconomic outcomes are largely insignificant with the expected signs. The study has therefore shown that the Covid-19 pandemic has insignificant negative impacts on basic macroeconomic variables in Nigeria such as inflation, employment, exchange rate, GDP growth, among others. In other words, time is required before the established correlations withstand empirical scrutiny in terms of causality. As the government has engaged the Economic Sustainable Plan (ESP, 2020), which is a post-Covid-19 recovery plan, it is hoped that the attendant policies would be properly implemented so as to provide the critical mass to repositioning the country's economy on the path towards inclusive and sustained economic development.
Subjects: 
Corona virus
Macroeconomics effects
Covid-19
AS-AD Model
Community Transmission
Nigeria
JEL: 
E10
E12
E20
E23
I10
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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