TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page –      –      –      –      –      –      –      –      –      i

Approval page –      –      –      –      –      –      –      –      ii

Dedication      –      –      —    –      –      –      –      –      iii

Acknowledgement –      –      –      –      –      –      –      iv

Abstract –      –      –      –      –      –      —    –      –      v

Table of content     –      –      –      —    –      –      –      vi

CHAPTER ONE

1.1       Background of the study

1.2       Statement of problem

1.3       Objective of the study 

1.4       Research Questions

1.5       Significance of study

1.6       Scope of the study

1.7       Limitations of the study

1.8       Definition of Terms

CHAPTER TWO

2.1       Literature review 

2.2       Theories of inflation

2.2.1    Demand pull theory  

2.2.2    Cost push theories of inflation  

2.2.3    Imported inflation theories

2.2.4    The accelerations theory of inflation  

2.2.5    The monetary theory of inflation

2.2.6    The structural rigidity theory 

2.2.7    Review of growth theories

2.2.8    The classical growth theory

2.2.9    The Harrow Doman Growth theory 

2.2.10  The Neo –classical growth theory

2.3       Empirical review of the effect of inflation on saving and growth.

2.4       Evaluation of inflation and economic growth in Nigeria

CHAPTER THREE

3.0       RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY                    

3.1       Introduction of the study

3.2       Research design

3.3       Sources and methods of data collection                        

3.4       Population of study

3.5       Instrument for data collection

3.6       Validity of the instrument

3.7       Method of data collection

3.8       Method of data analysis 

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0       PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA                    

4.1       Introduction  

4.2       Presentation of data

4.3       Analysis of data

4.4       Research Findings

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0       Summary of findings  

5.1       Conclusion

5.2       Implication and recommendations

5.3       Suggestion for further research    

5.4       Limitation of study

CHAPTER ONE

1.0               INTRODUCTION

One of the constant face by rural women economic advancement in Nigeria has been  blamed by a school of thought on the inability of Nigeria women’s to embrace co-operative way of doing business Helm (2011), this is because co-operatives are of the most effective vehicles for organizing rural production.

The paper aims to analyze the effectiveness on the contribution of women co-operative to women access to credit as a method of advancing the development of women in Nigeria gender analysis it unitized to explain the disadvantage and marginalization of women in the co-operative. It is noted that Nigeria women access to credit receptive to co-operatives, which are made attractive to them by engaging in topics pertinent to women’s development such as access to credit, training economic, health and education activity and advancement of women’s participation  in the co-operative movement. Cooperatives are  not only the most suitable organization and frame work for accelerated rural development but they are veritable instruments for assisting women in the  achievement of increase output of farm products for  instance, in the procurement of farms inputs like fertilizers, improved seeds and seedling, credit as well as in the product storage and marketing, continently measured as the percentage rate of increase in real gross domestic product and it is usually calculated in real terms, i. e inflation adjusted terms in order to net out the effect of inflation on price of goods and services produced.

Barro and Grilli (1994), posit that mainstream economists believe that high rates of inflation are caused by high rates of growth of the money supply. They are of the view that changes in inflation are sometimes attributed to fluctuations in real demand for goods and services or in available supplies (i.e. changes in scarcity), and sometimes to change in the supply and demand for money.