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- Title
A MICRO LEVEL ANALYSIS OF POVERTY AMONG ARTISANAL RURAL FISHERY IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA.
- Authors
OLADIMEJI, Y. U.; DAMISA, M. A.; ABDULSALAM, Z.; OMOKORE, D. F.
- Abstract
The study investigates the poverty incidence using the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (FGT) index. A fishery household survey was conducted in eight fishing settlements with a sample of 306 households in 2012/2013. The households were selected through multistage random sampling procedure. The monthly mean per adult eguivalent household expenditure of the household was US$56.72 (N9075.23) out of which a poverty line of US$37.81 (N6050.15) was estimated. Results of FGT decomposition revealed that poverty incidence for the study area is about 0.53. Poverty incidence, depth and severity increase with increase family size of household heads. A stochastic dominance analysis validates the choice of poverty line. Results of regression analysis revealed that the fishermen's net income is significantly influenced by 3 independent variables. Government policy should be directed at educating the fishing households through literacy campaign, access to universal basic education, and skill-enhance trainings, so as to be able to adopt new innovations and technigues which will enhance improve standard of living and apparently reduced poverty.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; POVERTY &; demography; POVERTY; GOVERNMENT policy; POVERTY reduction; LITERACY programs; FISHERIES; HOUSEHOLDS -- Social aspects
- Publication
Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies & Management, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 4, p420
- ISSN
1998-0507
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/ejesm.v7i4.9