The Role Of Commercial Banks In Export Promotion In Nigeria.

The establishment of commercial banks is not legislatively or decree compelled but should be seen as a measure to persude the institution to take the advantage of exploiting and utilizing economic and social facilities. This study is aimed at identifying the role of commercial banks in export promotion in Nigeria, highlighting the various roles that commercial banks left contributed towards Nigeria match for growth and development in export promotion. This study focused attention on the general operations of the commercial bank its historical structure and back ground for effective and accurate assessment of the commercial banks.

    The study further reviewed the objective and role of commercial banks to export promotion and appraised its performance and also expose its problems and make recommendation. Materials for the study were sources purely from secondary data.

PREFACE.

    The Nigeria economy is presently in a great distress and dilemma. The economy was plunged into this agonizing guang mainly due to over reliance on one export commodity oil. Suddenly, the price of crude oil dropped in the international market. This reflected sharply in the level of adverse balance of payment problems. The major concern of this study is to reveal how commercial banks can help in promoting exports and stimulating economic growth. The federal Government has taken liberal measures to streamline the structure of the commercial banking activities. A discount window for financing exports have been established by the federal minister of finance, export credit guarantee and insurance scheme is being designed by the federal ministry of finance to stimulate export financing. In partialcular, the federal ministry of finance has been made an autonomous institution while commercial banks are now allowed to take equity interest in small-scale enterprises.

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DEDICATION

ABSTRACT

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERETURE

2.1. REASONS FOR EXPORT TRADE

THE NIGERIAN SITUATION

2.2. STRUCTURE OF NIGERIA’S EXPORTS

2.3. LIST OF SERVICES PROVIDER BY

COMMERCIAL BANKS TO EXPORTERS

2.4. QUALITY CONTROL AND CONTINUNITY

SUPPLY

REFERENCE

3.3. METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

FINDINGS

RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION

5.1 RECOMMENDATION

5.2. CONCLUSION

BIBIOGRAPHY.