Non-farm enterprises and poverty reduction amongst households in rural Nigeria: a propensity score matching approach
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 scor...
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International Organization Of Scientific Research
2014
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34660/1/Non-farm%20enterprises%20and%20poverty%20reduction%20amongst%20households%20in%20rural%20Nigeria%20a%20propensity%20score%20matching%20approach.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34660/ http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/pages/19%284%29Version-6.html |
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| Institution: | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | 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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