Dynamics and determinants of poverty in Nigeria evidence from a panel survey
This paper investigates the dynamics of poverty in Nigeria across two periods - post-planting and post-harvest seasons. Two poverty levels were used in analyzing the household survey data. The estimated results show that about 82.11 % of the population was categorized as living under US$2/day in the...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Conference "Recent Trends in Economic Development, Finance and Management Research in Eastern Africa" (2015 : Kigali) Poverty and well-being in East Africa |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This paper investigates the dynamics of poverty in Nigeria across two periods - post-planting and post-harvest seasons. Two poverty levels were used in analyzing the household survey data. The estimated results show that about 82.11 % of the population was categorized as living under US$2/day in the post-planting season and 83.32 % in the post-harvest season. However, 61.93 % of the population was said to be extremely poor during the post-planting season and 62.02 % in the post-harvest season. In actual sense, an increase of 0.09 % in poverty levels was noticed after the first visit for the extremely poor and an increase of 1.21 % in poverty levels was seen after the second visit for the merely poor. The study used the first field visit to represent the post-planting season and the second visit for the post-harvest season. The study also validates low education levels, religion, poor employment status, and marital status as the major determinants of poverty in Nigeria. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319309804 9783319809366 |