When an economy is said to be depressed, it simply means that all the reasonable percentage of such economic activities are less active. Poor standard of living becomes order of the day of such economy because it is characterized by low per capita income.
In a depressed economy, anti-social activities are increased as a result of unemployment and lack of financial support to those that want to go school. Also in such economy, agricultural sector will not be financed and for that reason there would be poor agricultural yield. Government find it difficult to provide social infrastructures for individual and deficit budgeting becomes every year experience.
In an economy like that commercial banks role cannot be over stated. The commercial banks are expected to play a role in such economy to enhance its economic activities by loaning to individuals so as to encourage them to invest, so that through their investments they will have an income to save and do other things to help life.
Looking at the increase in low standard of living as a result of less active of economical activities of the country, I can say that commercial banks have a need to be an instrument to help for advancement of such economy. So to wipe off the economical depression; the commercial bank has a lot of contribute as the quest for economic development of such economy needed.
As the economical activities of such economy is in shamble because of the depression in its economy, commercial banks should be endeavour to provide the need of the people by improving these:
1) Social Infrastructure
2) Finding Agricultural Sector
3) Creating job opportunities for the youths.
1.4 RATIONALE/RESEARCH QUESTION.
The importance of this research work is to know the ability of commercial banks to perform its role efficient and effectively in a depressed economy and to also determine the extent of hope to such economy.
Therefore this research work is useful to:
commercial banks to an economy facing depression in its economical and social activities through observations and questioning; the burden to make a research work concerning the contribution of commercial bank was arose.
This project is purely a search work carried out by me. This research work is free from bias and inconsistency. The data used are reliable and the respondents, responded well by providing answers to my questions based on their knowledge. The method used was through direct interview and use of questions from the data.
This study is based on the fact that the Nigerian economy is depressed and characterized by low standard of living therefore there is need to identify if commercial banks are playing their roles to our economy to enhance or develops the Nigerian and its standard of living.
DEFINITION OF TERMS.
1. Role:- This means a task, duty or responsibility.
2. Commercial bank:- Simply means banks own by individuals or a group set of people that brought their resources together to open banks for profit making.
3. Bank:- Means an organization or a place that provides a financial service.
4. Depressed:- This means a situation or a state whereby something is brought down to lower level.
5. Economy:- Simply means the use of available resources in a way that saves, yields money, time and finally avoid waste.
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