This paper empirically examines the impact of public goods distribution on socio - economic development in Cross River State, Nigeria from 1991 to 2010. The study adopted the method of instrumental variables to estimate the public goods distribution equations using the autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) model. The major findings indicated that Cross River State has made significant efforts in addressing inequality in providing opportunities (basic services) in physical, social and environmental infrastructure and to abridge the observed gaps therein, but still suffers drags due to inadequate funds for maintenance and upgrading, inefficiency and unfair distribution in the infrastructural se
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