THE GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE IN GONGOLA STATE
THE GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE IN GONGOLA STATE
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1992-10
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SAMSON, JOSEPH
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Abstract
From 197G/77 to 1990 fiscal years in Gongola
State, there had teen expansion and growth of public
expenditure. The rapid growth of public expenditure
has been round to arise from the government committments
to provide sociel, economic and administrative services.
Social services such as education, health and sanitation,
water supply, roads and housing, and the expansion of
the administrative requirement of the state government
in terms of employment of qualitative administrators has
been Pound to show, significant increase in demand.
These were things on which the performance of the
government has increasingly come to be judged.
Consequently, the state government devoted a large
proportion of its annua] budgets to the provision of
these basic utilities.
The state capital expenditure has been found to be
relatively low. This is due to low savings by the
government, low tax effort, thus leading to low state
internal revenue and the rapidly growing recurrent
expenditure. Therefore, the burden of recurrent
expenditure in the state imposed severe strain on the
budgetary policies and .further complicated future
publi c expenditure trends .
Undoubtedly, there were several factors which
accounted for the accelerated growth rate and the
changing pattern of public expenditure. The degree to
which each factor has contributed differed significantly.
However, the role of federally allocated revenue is
highly recognised.
The results of the tested hypotheses show that
there were high positive and significant correlations
between total expenditure and recurrent expenditure;
between total expenditure and federally allocated revenue;
between total expenditure and population growth, and
between total expenditure and rate of urbanisation.
There is low positive and significant correlation between
total expenditure and capital expenditure,
correlation between to total expenditure and state internal
revenue, and between total expenditure and rate of
inflation gives a low positive and not so significant
correlation. Also, the result of the regression analysis
gives state internal revenuetfederally allocated revenue
and population as the major factors of expenditure
growth in the state.
The rapid increase in public spending suggests a
heightened search for new revenue sources and for us
increase in the existing ones. For the budgets to
perform their proper roles in the state development
process, there is an urgent need for an enhanced
efficiency in the management and the control of public
expenditure. Recurrent expenditure requires a more
Description
BEING THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZAR1A, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
FACULTY OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA, NIGERIA
DECEMBER 1992
Keywords
GROWTH,, STRUCTURE,, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE,, GONGOLA STATE