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Point of Sale and Cashless Policy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects

G. I. Anyanwu, C. I. Anumaka

Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting · pp. 42–57 · Published 11 Dec 2020

10.9734/ajeba/2020/v20i230323

Abstract

The study examined the impact of Point of Sale (POS) on cashless policy, issues and prospect in Nigeria economy; research questions were formulated and distributed to the sample population of 500 drawn from various POS operating centers in line with the objectives of the study. Four hundred and fifty  responses were returned while fifty copies were not returned; the responses were categorized according to strongly agreed, agreed, strongly disagreed, disagreed and neutral with weight of (5,4,3,2,1) assigned to each category respectively to generate acceptable raw data for econometric analysis. The raw data were analyzed using cointegrated, ordinary least squares, autoregressive distributed lag, unit root and Grange causality; the result shows that POS has significant and positive impact on cashless policy in Nigeria. We therefore recommend that POS should be deployed to various areas to facilitates exchange transactions and ultimately reduces cash based related transactions in the economy.

Co-Integrated least squares autoregressive distributed lag granger causality.

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