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Shehu, Abdulaziz and Ahmad Siddique, Shaufique Fahmi
(2014)
Non-farm enterprises and poverty reduction amongst households in rural Nigeria: a propensity score matching approach.
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 19 (4 ver.6).
pp. 57-61.
ISSN 2279-0845; ESSN: 2279-0837
Abstract
The data of nationally representative household survey from rural Nigeria was used to examine the effect of non-farm enterprise activities on improvement in the welfare of households in rural Nigeria, using total annual household consumption expenditure as a measure of their welfare. Propensity score matching approach was used for the analysis, and the result shows that rural households that engage in non-farm enterprise activities are having higher consumption expenditure than those that did not diversify into such activities. This suggests that, non-farm enterprises could be a pathway for improving the wellbeing of rural households in Nigeria and in the remaining sub-Saharan African countries.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Economics and Management |
| DOI Number: | https://doi.org/10.9790/0837-19465761 |
| Publisher: | International Organization Of Scientific Research |
| Keywords: | Non-farm enterprises; Poverty; Household wellbeing; Rural Nigeria; Propensity Score Matching |
| Depositing User: | Nurul Ainie Mokhtar |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2015 09:01 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2016 02:34 |
| Altmetrics: | http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.9790/0837-19465761 |
| URI: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34660 |
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