Musa Abdu
@gsu.edu.ng
Economics
Gombe State University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Innovation Economics, Entrepreneurial Economics, Law and Economics
Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Bashir Adelowo Wahab, Adamu Jibir, and Musa Abdu
SAGE Publications
The need for promoting entrepreneurship stems from the efforts to provide long-lasting solutions to the challenges of poverty and unemployment. This becomes even more crucial in worldwide crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had a momentous effect on businesses and economies but has also driven us to recognize the importance of entrepreneurship. This study explores the combination of important entrepreneurial and household factors that drive the growth of new businesses during and after the crisis. This study applies the Round 2 data from the Nigeria National Longitudinal Phone Survey Phase 2 conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the World Bank between November 2021 and August 2022. The logistic regression model analyzes how job loss due to the pandemic correlates with the probability of household heads starting and operating an enterprise immediately after the pandemic and the probability for the existing household entrepreneurs to innovate. The findings show that necessity-driven entrepreneurship became effective immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, and innovation and opportunity recognition were more relevant as success factors during periods of crisis than during regular times. This is because the crisis produced a new set of highly competitive and strategic entrepreneurs that quickly adapted to new situations or conditions through their innovative capacity. Several policy recommendations derived from the study’s empirical findings are discussed in the conclusion section of the article. JEL Classification I1, D1, L26, F44, C35, N97
Shahid Mahmood Waqar and Musa Abdu
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
This study explores the productivity growth effects of horizontal, backward, and forward FDI spillovers in the Türkiye manufacturing sector using industry-level data for the period 2008–2018. While controlling for capital intensity and human capital as proxies for the absorption capacity, we apply system GMM and bootstrapped LSDV estimator to estimate the models. Our findings reveal that backward linkages significantly hamper industrial productivity due to the rudimentary nature of the products in the downstream sector or lack of absorption capacity. While horizontal spillovers retard the productivity growth; forward linkages enhance the growth, though all insignificant. The results depict that all the interactions with capital intensity strongly promote industrial productivity growth.
MUSA ABDU and FUAT OGUZ
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd
This study explores how certain institutional dimensions influence entrepreneurial allocations in Nigeria and its sectorial heterogeneity. We apply unconditional fixed-effect Tobit regression estimators on a combined dataset extracted from various sources over the period 2011-2015. Our findings suggest that property rights and oil rents strongly encourage young entrepreneurs to be innovative, while a number of business procedures and the rule of law discourage them from being innovative. The findings suggest that some of the institutions are complementary to one another in improving entrepreneurial innovativeness. Interactions between them are positive and significant. Sectorial results reveal that property rights, government effectiveness and oil rents significantly enhance entrepreneurial innovativeness, whereas government size reduces innovativeness among young entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector. In the IT sector, property rights, control of corruption, regulatory quality and government effectiveness increase entrepreneurial innovativeness. Government size, business procedures and the rule of law reduce innovativeness. Overall, the institutions appear to have stronger and bigger effects in the IT sector than they do in the manufacturing sector. Policy implications include the need for institutional reforms targeting productive entrepreneurship to focus more on making business regulation and procedures more competition-friendly and less cumbersome and strengthening the quality of anti-graft and property right institutions.
Md Aslam Mia, Adamu Jibir, Arpita Sharma, and Musa Abdu
Elsevier BV
Adamu Jibir, Musa Abdu, and Abdullahi Buba
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Adamu Jibir, Hassan Zada, Musa Abdu, and Naveed Khan
National Library of Serbia
The body of literature on the nexus concerning innovation, the development of financial systems, and economic growth has gained increasing attention in recent times. However, it is observed that the majority of studies are conducted in developed and emerging economies. This study is unique in its own right by exploring the effect of innovation and financial development on economic growth using panel data for 30 sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 2001-2018. The study employed symmetric panel ARDL, common correlated effect ARDL, and asymmetric panel ARDL. Our empirical findings revealed a long-run effect of innovation and financial development on the economic growth of SSA. This means that expansion of the financial sector and better innovation activities in SSA stimulate long-term economic growth. Robustness tests provided consistent results with the baseline findings. The study therefore recommends that to promote sustained economic growth and development in the region, policy makers must collectively work in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders in enhancing regional financial reforms and innovative activities.
Adamu Jibir and Musa Abdu
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Musa Abdu and Adamu Jibir
Kasetsart University and Development Institute
Adamu Jibir, Salihu Abdullahi, Musa Abdu, Abdullahi Buba, and Bello Ibrahim
After about a decade of exiting sovereign debt havoc; there is now another panic that a new sovereign-debt problem may loom in Nigeria given the current rising debt profile in the country. In this light ,this paper sought to enhance the existing literature on the debt growth-nexus by analyzing the relationship between debt variables and economic growth within Solow (1956) growth framework. The study adopted econometric technique of Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) model and applied on time-series data for Nigeria spanning between 1981 and 2016. The results show that external debt is negatively related with economic growth in both short and long runs. The evidence suggests that increase in external debt will lead to decline in economic growth. Based on the findings, the study suggests that debt service obligation should not be allowed to rise more than foreign exchange earnings and that the loan contracted should be invested in profitable and productive ventures, which will generate a reasonable amount of money for debt repayment.