Title: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BANK CREDIT A PANACEA TO ECONOMIC GROWTH IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
Abstract: Corporate governance focuses on the way organisations and firms are managed and controlled towards achieving stated objectives. This study investigates corporate governance and bank credit as a panacea to economic growth in developing economies referencing Nigeria for the period which spanned from 2011 to 2020. The objective of the study is to investigate and evaluate the extent to which corporate governance (board size and board composition) affects economic growth in developing economies and to investigate to what extent to which banks’ credit (aggregate lending to private and public sector) have impacted on economic growth in developing economies. The study employed econometric approach of descriptive statistics, correlation matrix analysis. The regression model took the form of Fixed Effects Model and Random Effects Model. The study addressed Variables of Gross domestic product (GDP), Bank credit (Bcr = (Aggregate lending to private and public sector), Board size (Bs) and Board composition (Bc) are identified as the bases to build a model for the study. The study made use of annual data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin and the annual observatory report of 21 Nigeria deposit money banks listed on NSE (Appendix1) from 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2020, which was gathered from the Fact Book of the Nigeria Stock of Exchange (NSE). The latter contained the required information for the 21 banks listed on the NSE, covering the 10 years with 110 observations. Correlation result shows that there is positive correlation between gross domestic product and banks’ credit with the correlation coefficient of 0.1807. On the other hand, other result shows that there is inverse correlation between gross domestic product and corporate governance measured by board size and board composition with correlation coefficient of -0.1535 and -0.2563 respectively. Random effect estimation result revealed that board size have negative effect and statistical significant effect with coefficient estimate of -0.187323 (p=0.03 0.05). Banks’ credit has positive and significant impact on gross domestic product when measured with the coefficient estimate result of 6.912538(p= 0000 = 0000). Thus, banks’ credit from banks increases economic growth by 691.2%. The study recommends that Banks should engage in the development and implementation of strategic training on corporate governance disclosure and banking ethics for board members and senior bank managers. Corporate governance by size of the board should be regulated which should not be too large and must consist of highly skilled and competent professionals who are conversant with oversight function
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-10-04
Language: en
Type: article
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