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| Title: | Rural Poverty in Nigeria: Profile, Determinants and Exit Paths |
| Author: | Anyanwu, John C. |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | African Development Review |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 435-460 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | rural poverty Economics and Trade Women's Issues Labor and Employment economics |
| External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1017-6772.2006.00123.x/pdf |
| Abstract: | This paper studies the profile of rural poverty in Nigeria, what accounts for it, and what specific measures can be taken to reduce it, using the 1996 National Consumer Survey data set. The results show that by 1996, the proportion of the rural population living under the poverty line stood at 71.7 percent, up from 46 percent in 1992. A logistic regression model was estimated based on the data, with the probability of a household being poor as the dependent variable and a set of personal, demographic, economic and locational variables as explanatory variables. From the multivariate analysis the variables that are positively and significantly correlated with the probability of being poor in rural Nigeria are household size, primary education level and below, rural occupations in the clerical, production and 'other' activities. The variables that are negatively and significantly correlated with the probability of being poor are quadratic of household size, and residence in the central, southeast and south-south zones of rural Nigeria. In addition, strong evidence was found to support the hypothesis of the feminization of rural poverty. Based on the results, a number of policy interventions necessary to reduce poverty in rural Nigeria are suggested. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract, edited] |
