Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316061 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of Economics and Political Science (REPS) [ISSN:] 2631-3561 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 3 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 194-203
Publisher: 
Emerald, Bingley
Abstract: 
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of critical macroeconomic drivers like economic growth (gross domestic product (GDP)/capita), inflation and population size on the mortality rate of Nigeria. The general lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had so many effects like loss of jobs, insecurity, businesses collapsing, salary cuts, unemployment and increased prices of commodities in the market. Design/methodology/approach - The paper focused on secondary data for the period 1991-2019 for GDP/capita, inflation, population size and mortality rate which were obtained from World Development Indicators (WDI). Time series analysis tests like augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Bounds co-integration and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) were used to determine the stationarity conditions of the variables, co-integration presence among the variables and to determine the short-run and long-run relationships between the endogenous and exogenous variables. Findings - The study shows that the variables are stationary at different orders i.e. I (0) and I (1) and the presence of co-integration among the variables. There exists a positive relationship between GDP/capita and mortality rate on the short-run which means increase in GDP/capita does not reduce the mortality rate in the country, there is also a positive short-run relationship between inflation and mortality rate but there are no long-run relationships among the variables. Originality/value - The paper clearly examines the impact of GDP/capita, inflation and population growth on mortality rate in Nigeria.
Subjects: 
GDP (capita)
Inflation
Mortality rate
Population growth
Time-series analysis
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