This paper examines the impact of the unofficial cattle business on the household welfare of cattle traders of the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria and relates that impact to the household access to basic needs or services of life such as income, employment, food, shelter, education, potable water, electricity, and health care that have been extensively used in the literature as indicators for the attainment of well-being and freedom from the yoke of poverty in the society. It uses primary and secondary data on the trade activities and employs descriptive as well as inferential techniques of data analysis to capture the objectives of the inquiry. The findings of the paper show that despite the unofficial character and unnoticed impact of the business by the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria, the traders who partake in the business acknowledge to have enhanced their living conditions with it. Poverty reduction being implicitly or explicitly cited as a strategy for household welfare improvement by the government in Cameroon and Nigeria, the paper recommends the enforcement, review and continuation of the existing poverty reduction programs irrespective of the leadership choice in the countries.
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This paper analyzes the extent to which the unrecorded cattle business across the Nigeria-Cameroon border facilitates the provisioning of social utilities such as potable water, electricity, and healthcare to traders. It uses primary data obtained from 480 traders in 8 cattle market centers in Nigeria and Cameroon, and secondary data on the trade activities. Both the descriptive and inferential methods of data scrutiny are employed to achieve the aims of the investigation. Results of the paper reveal that the trade empowers only a few among the traders to easy access to social utilities in the study area due to misplacement of priorities and under-utilization of available resources in both countries. As a result, the paper recommends to Nigeria and Cameroon to reflect on how to enforce the proposals of the resources availability and vent-for-surplus theories of trade with little amendments based on their prevailing specificities to make the trade official.
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