1.1 Introduction
Federal Government Finance Spending is a crucial instrument that enables the government to control the economy of a nation. Economists have been well aware of the effects in promoting economic growth. The general view is that Federal Government finance spending notably on social and economic infrastructure can be growth enhancing although the financing of such expenditure to provide essential infrastructural facilities including transport, electricity, telecommunication, water and sanitation, waste disposal, education and health can be growth retarding (Olukayode, 2009).
Nowadays, the relationship between federal government finance spending and economic development has continues to generate sense or controversies among scholars in economic literature (Inuwa, 2012).
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitation of the study and Definition of terms.
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