Poverty and Income Inequality in Rural Agrarian Household of Southwestern Nigeria: The Gender Perspective

Ogundipe, Adeyemi A.; Adebayo, Ogunniyi; Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi; Asaleye, Abiola John

doi:10.2174/1874331501913010051

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“…For male migrants, 53.70% of households were poor, while 54.95% of the households of female migrants were poor. This is consistent with the findings of (Ogundipe et al 2019) and (Ogunniyi et al 2017) that poverty is higher among the female-headed households. Generally, migrants who worked only after migration seem to have the highest proportion of poor households (58.13%).…”

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“…Households below the poverty line can be adjudged to be poor. In the absence of a national poverty line, coupled with the fact that the use of the absolute poverty line of $1 dollar a day does not fit this kind of study, following (Oyekale et al 2012) and (Ogundipe et al 2019), we calculated a relative poverty line, defined as two-thirds of the mean per capita expenditure (PCE).…”

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Migration, Labor Mobility and Household Poverty in Nigeria: A Gender Analysis

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The increase in the geographical mobility of labour as a result of poverty, unemployment and unstable economic conditions, among other factors, especially among professionals, has been associated with a brain drain in Nigeria. Despite the high level of migration and subsequent remittances from migrants, a large proportion of Nigerians still live in poverty. The increased participation of women in migration in the country also brings to the fore the existence of gender-specific migration experiences and how this has in turn affected their households. Based on gender, this study assesses the extent of labour mobility, its determinants and how it influences remittance inflows and household poverty using the logit regression model Propensity Score Matching and Linear Regression with Endogenous Treatment Effect Approach. Results reveal that while more males travelled for employment purposes, more females travelled due to marriage arrangements. More of the migrants that were working after migration had worked before migration and had the highest average amount of remittance sent to households. The study shows that labour mobility increases the amount of remittance sent to households. However, the increase was higher among male migrants than female migrants. More than half of the migrants had poor households; meanwhile, labour mobility was found to reduce the extent of poverty. The study recommended that policies that improve the welfare of labour and reduce the brain drain, unemployment and closures of enterprises in the country should be put in place. Also, effective policies and interventions that promote the use of remittances to achieve maximum reductions in poverty should be pursued.

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“…Likewise, related studies in Nigeria focused more on implication of oil shock on macroeconomic performance with less emphasis on employment. The increase in the unemployment rate in recent times have been the major concern for policy analyst in Nigeria (Arisukwu et al, 2019;Oloni et al, 2017;Fashina et al, 2018;Aremu et al, 2018;Popoola, Asaleye and Eluyela, 2018;Ogundipe et al, 2019). This study differs from the above studies by investigating the effect of oil price shock on macroeconomic variables with more attention to employment dimension using the SVAR.…”

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Oil Price Shock and Macroeconomic Performance in Nigeria: Implication on Employment

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Reduction in oil price in the international market, coupled high demand of foreign goods and wide swings of oil prices in the international market has posed different challenges for policies to promote growth and development. This study investigates the impact of oil shock on macroeconomic performance in Nigeria using Structural Vector Autoregression and normalized equation was used to establish the long-run equation. Evidence from the long-run relationship showed that employment has a negative relationship with aggregated output, exchange rate and oil prices. The interest rate and consumer price index has a positive relationship with employment. Variation in oil shock affects most of the macroeconomic variables. More explicitly, the oil price shock shows more variation across the time horizon for employment. The consequence of the result is that dependence on the oil sector has not promoted employment generation over time; there is a need to consider an alternative means to ensure sustainable growth and development.

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“…Mat et al (2012) used this index to analyze the effect of sources of income on poverty in Kedah (Malaysia), while Iqbal et al (2018) used it to analyze the effect of nonfarm income on poverty in Punjab (Pakistan). Zhu and Luo (2005) applied this index in their research in rural China, while Ogundipe et al (2019) used it to assess the gender differential in poverty (captured through incidence, depth, and severity). The FGT index was used in other studies as well (Awotide 2012;Aristondo 2018).…”

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Analysis of income determinants among rural households in Kosovo

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Musliu

Shkodra

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Kosovo is one of the poorest countries in Europe, despite the various poverty alleviation programs implemented by the authorities and the international funding community. This study aims to analyze income distribution inequality and factors behind rural households' poverty in Kosovo. Data on farm income, nonfarm income, unearned income, and socio-economic characteristics were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire from 203 randomly selected households in Kosovo. Linear regression, one-way ANOVA, and different versions of poverty indexes were used to examine the data. One-quarter of households' income comes from nonfarm activities. The middle-income households had the highest potential to find alternative employment in the nonfarm sector. Years of education, household size, number of family members above the age of 18, and total income had a positive impact on nonfarm revenues. The poorest rural households had the highest share of income from farm activities (77.52%). Nonfarm revenues have a positive impact on poverty alleviation; thus, the study suggests adopting suitable rural policies to enhance nonfarm employment for vulnerable rural households. The agro-tourism sector and circular economy approaches in agriculture with the focus on renewable energy can be considered as potential sources of nonfarm income, which could lead to sustainable poverty reduction.

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Poverty and Income Inequality in Rural Agrarian Household of Southwestern Nigeria: The Gender Perspective

Cited by 36 publications

References 10 publications

Migration, Labor Mobility and Household Poverty in Nigeria: A Gender Analysis

Migration, Labor Mobility and Household Poverty in Nigeria: A Gender Analysis

Oil Price Shock and Macroeconomic Performance in Nigeria: Implication on Employment

Analysis of income determinants among rural households in Kosovo

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