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It sought to assess the significance of external debt, and to suggest measures that could enhance its effectiveness and human capital development in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of the research, some external debt and human development capital indicators, using the ex-post facto research design was applied. The data were collated, analyzed and tested using the descriptive statistics and the autoregressive distribution lag (ARDL) data analysis techniques. From the analysis, external debt service payment and external debt burden both non-significantly, but adversely affect human development index in the Nigerian economy. Based on the findings, the study recommended that external debt finance should be channeled to only projects with the highest priority. In doing so, defining the purpose, duration, moratorium requirements and commitments, negotiation fees, etc, including the conditions under which the government can approve and guarantee external loans. Also, one superior method of negotiation should be maintained by the government for varying amortization and fixed interest payment. Also, multi-year rescheduling should be adopted, rather than the year-by-year approach.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>JOHN IME  JOHN (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CALABAR)<\/li>\n<li>JOSEPHINE EDEM  NSOJA (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CALABAR)<\/li>\n<li>SULEIMAN GBENGA  LAWAL (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CALABAR)<\/li>\n<li>AKANIYENE BILLY  OROK (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, CALABAR)<\/li>\n<li>ANIEKPNO  ESSIEN (UNIVERSITY OF JOS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Moratorium, amortization, revenue, debt servicing, negotiation, Moratoriumamortizationrevenuedebt servicingnegotiation<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: EVALUATING DEBT BURDEN AND REVENUE LEAKAGES ON HUMAN DEVELOMENT IN NIGERIA Original Article Link:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2995,2997,2994,2999,2998,2996],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-amortization","tag-debt-servicing","tag-moratorium","tag-moratoriumamortizationrevenuedebt-servicingnegotiation","tag-negotiation","tag-revenue","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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