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    Public Expenditure and Management of Covid-19 Pandemic in Osun State.
    (The Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Adinistration, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2022) ABEKE, Akintola Olabisi
    The study examined public expenditure and management of covid-19 pandemic in Osun State. It specifically examine the determinants of public expenditure on management of Covid-19 pandemic in Osun State, to assess the effects of public expenditure on management of Covid-19 pandemic in Osun State and also to analyse the challenges facing public expenditure and management of Covid-19 pandemic in Osun State. The study relied on primary and secondary sources of data. Primary data were sourced through the administration of questionnaire, personal interviews, and focus group discussions (FGDs). Secondary data were collected from relevant journals, books, government publications and available statistical package for social sciences to generate frequencies, percentages, and contingencies (cross tabulation). The data collected from the questionnaire were analysed descriptively. The descriptive analysis involved tabulations in percentages, and use of appropriate statistical analysis, while responses to interviews were analysed to form the part of the finding. The result showed that 62 (51.7%) of the respondents strongly agree that Nigerian government’s budgetary response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the economic and social implications of the pandemic, 53(44.2%) agree, 3(2.5%) disagree, while 2(1.6%) strongly disagreed. The result also showed that 53 (44.2%) of the respondents strongly agree that a country’s ability to effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant effects depends on its fiscal space, 48(40.0%) agree, 7(5.8%) disagree, while 12(10.0%) strongly disagreed. Furthermore, the result also showed that 55 (45.8%) of the respondents strongly agree that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the global travel business, national health care systems, the food industry, events industry, education and global trade, 54 (45.0 %) agree, 3 (2.5 %) disagree, while 8 (6.6%) of the respondents do not respond to the question. The result also showed that the COVID-19 crisis has caused a significant deterioration in public finances, which calls for a rethink of tax and spending policies once the recovery is well underway, 44 (36.7%) agree to this, 10 (8.3 %) disagreed, 11 (9.1 %) strongly disagree, while 2 (1.7 %) of the respondents did not respond. In addition the result showed that 62(51.7%) of the respondents agree that lockdowns and border closures have exacerbated issues of acute food insecurity, poverty and unemployment in Nigeria, 53(44.2%) strongly agree, 3(2.5%) disagree, while 2(1.6%) strongly disagreed. The result also showed that 51(42.5%) of the respondents strongly agree that Covid-19 Pandemic lead to political instability creating a vicious cycle of poverty and political instability, 40(33.3%) agree, 19(15.8%) disagree, while 10(8.3%) strongly disagreed. This means that the recovery remains uneven, with strikingly different outcomes across countries, sectors and demographic groups The study concluded that there is significant determinants of public expenditure on management of Covid-19 pandemic in Osun State and also there is significant effects of public expenditure on management of Covid-19 pandemic in Osun State.