Abstract WP10-08

Adedoyin Soyibo, Olanrewaju Olaniyan, and Akanni O. Lawanson. 2010. The structure of generational public transfer flows in Nigeria, 2004.

Abstract. This paper seeks to investigate how government has played this role in Nigeria examining the structure of intergenerational public transfer inflows in the country. This is done by analyzing the mechanism government uses to satisfy the consumption needs of the different groups over the lifecycle especially through reallocating and transferring resources from the productive groups of the population to dependent groups. The paper utilizes the methodology of National Transfers Accounts (NTA) and analyzes the public transfer flows of the 2004 National Transfer Flows Accounts of Nigeria.

Within this framework, a transfer is a transaction that transfers a good, service or cash from an individual belonging to one age group to an individual belonging to another age group with no expectation of compensation or an explicit quid pro quo in any form (Mason et al 2006). While these transfers can be mediated by both the private and public sector, this paper focuses only on transfers that are mediated by the public sector.

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