This study examined the impact of internal resources mobilization and financial\ncontrol of government budget in southwest Nigeria. The study focused on\nall the southwest states over a period of 15 years (2003 to 2017). Pooled OLS\nestimation, fixed effect estimation and random effect estimation were used in\nthe study, alongside trend analysis. Result showed significant trend of resources\nmobilization performance, though with varying strength of fluctuation\nacross the sampled states. Internally generated revenue exert positive\nsignificant impact on government financial control measured in terms of\nrevenue budgeted actual variance (0.407566, p = 0.000 < 0.05) and in terms of\nexpenditure budgeted actual variance (0.1694784, p = 0.000 < 0.05). This\nstudy concluded that internal resources mobilization has significant positive\ninfluence on the level of financial control of government budget in Southwest\nNigeria. Hence state government in southwest Nigeria should ensure adequate\ngeneration of revenue within the States, so as to boost the level of financial\ncontrol in government budget process.
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