ABSTRACT Poverty reduction programmes in Nigeria have not had significant intended effects. This can be attributed to the non-consideration of the heterogeneous nature of poverty and spatial contiguity of geographical units in their designs. There is scarce information on spatial decomposition and spillover of poverty across the Senatorial Districts (SD) in Nigeria. Therefore, the spatial concentration of poverty and its determinants were investigated. The study employed secondary data from N...
ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is believed to favour mainly low-income groups such as the poor. Despite the proposition in theoretical literature that financial inclusion can bring a lot of welfare benefits to the poor, empirical investigation to that effect is rather scant (little). Using 35 countries and almost 35,000 individuals, this study explored determinants as well as the effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. We employed Treatment Effects version of t...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the dynamics of poverty among rural active population in Mangu Local Government of Plateau State The ob1ect1ves of the study were to determine the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of the respondents; the incidence and spatial distribution of poverty and the causes of poverty in the study area. The study also intended to assess the pattern of poverty trajectory of the rural active population in the study area and the coping strategies/mechanisms e...
ABSTRACT Recent empirical literature has shown that several factors can expose households to risk, thereby making them vulnerable to poverty. These appear to be the major challenges many households face in developing economies. This study therefore investigates risk and vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria using the revised General Household post-harvest panel survey for Nigeria. One objective is to analyze the types of risks households face and to determine if urban and rural households are d...
Background to Study Urban poverty and livelihoods has been the major concern of professionals in the built environment such as urban economists and urban planners for many decades, which they considered as an impediments to the physical development of most cities in the developing countries like Nigeria. However, majority of these professionals have common views in conceptualizing, measuring and establishing the key indicators for contemporary poverty issues such as the use of househol...
Low income of the arable crop farmers is sine qua-non to abject poverty associated with most of the farmers;hence the study evaluated the determinants of poverty among arable crop farmers using sustainable soilmanagement techniques (SSMT) in Imo State, Nigeria. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used toselect 209 arable crop farmers for this study. Information on the objectives of this study was elicited from thesampled respondents through a well structured questionnaire. Data were ana...
Abstract: This study evaluated the impact of participation in rural-urban and international migration on vulnerability to rural multidimensional poverty, and crop production efficiency of migrant sending households in southern Ethiopia. It also quantified the extent and examined the determinants of rural multidimensional poverty and vulnerability to rural multidimensional poverty. In the year 2021, data were collected from 415 sample households using stratified random sampling. While the par...
ABSTRACT Most development policies emphasize on households‟ participation in poverty reduction programmes to achieve poverty reduction outcomes. However, many studies argue that most of the participatory programmes adopted in Tanzania are ineffective. One of the major reasons for ineffectiveness is spatial diversity of households‟ participation in poverty reduction programmes. Unfortunately, none of such studies have identified the level and factors and effects of spatial diversity of ho...
ABSTRACT The study examined Poverty and Youth Unemployment in Ekiti State, which is crucial to the development of the Ekiti State. The broad objective of the study is to investigate the effects of youth unemployment and poverty, the causes of youth unemployment and poverty, and also to analyze the possible resolution in reducing poverty and youth unemployment in Ekiti State. Primary data was employed, and also, administering of questionnaire to elicit information on the s...
Climate change is acknowledged in Kenya hence innovations that may help to increase the availability of water are of major importance. The purpose of this study was to assess rainfall variability and use of rainwater harvesting technologies as an adaptation strategy to climate change in Baringo County Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to: (i) analyze rainfall trends in agro-ecological zones: Lower Midlands 5 (LM 5), Inner Lowland (IL 6) and Lower highland (LH 2); (ii) estab...
ABSTRACT The study was curried out to determine the role of tourism in poverty reduction of Kaabong district. The specific objectives were to examine the role of tourism and poverty reduction, to identify other poverty reduction measures and the benefits of tourism to the local communities in Kaabong district. Descriptive and analytical research design were used to examine the findings to come up with the conclusions, A cross sectional research survey design was used to employ both qualities ...
This study is thus basically going to investigate the impact of micro fiance services on poverty reduction in Nebbi district, FICNA as a case study and the specific objectives are:-To detennine the levels of poverty reduction in Nebbi Disirict; to determine the level of Micro Finance services offered by_ fINCA in Nebbi District; ·to establish the significant relationship between Micro Finance servictes ai,;_d poverty reduction in ·Nebbi District; to determine the profile of the respondents....
This paper investigated the threshold effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using an annual dataset spanning 2010 to 2017, the Hansen’s estimation and Differenced generalized method of moments (GMM) methods were used to estimate the threshold level of financial inclusion that will reduce poverty and factors that influence financial inclusion respectively. The results showed that beyond a threshold level of 0.365, financial inclusion would lead to po...
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ABSTRACT ‘he research was on carried on the impact of poverty on family relationship in Ntoroko town council. ‘he objectives of the study were: to establish the causes of poverty on family relationship in Ntoroko ~wn council. To assess the impacts of poverty on family relationship and to find out the possible trategies that can be used to reduce poverty on family relationship. ~ total number of 50 respondents were used in the study comprising of parents, youth, local council fficials and ...