Government General Spending and Human Development: A Case Study of Nigeria

Omodero, Cordelia Onyinyechi

doi:10.2478/ajis-2019-0005

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“…This study's required facilities include adequate power supply, storage facility, credit facility, fertilizer, seedlings, farmers' training, modern technology and farming equipment, extensive markets, right roads, and transport system. Human capital development in the country includes education of the workforce that can boost national growth [38] through tangible input in agricultural development. Some of the farmers lack the required training on how to handle pests destroying farm crops.…”

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Sustainable Agriculture, Food Production and Poverty Lessening in Nigeria

Omodero¹

2021

IJSDP

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The challenge of persistent poverty and food insecurity in Nigeria has been an issue of concern. The government’s effort to alleviate poverty in Nigeria through agriculture appears ineffective because most poor people are rural dwellers and are coincidentally the farmers. They seem not to be benefiting from the government interventions to support farming due to corruption and other unquantifiable factors. This study investigates the impact of agricultural output and food production on poverty decrease in Nigeria. The data used in this study span from 2009 to 2019. Relevant diagnostic tests and regression analysis are performed to obtain the empirical evidence highlighted in this paper. Thus, the findings reveal that the Food Production Index significantly and positively impacts poverty reduction, while Agricultural Output has an immaterial negative effect on poverty decrease. The study concludes that poverty alleviation in Nigeria and food security will depend on government’s full involvement in agriculture and improvement on its agricultural budget. Accordingly, the provision of necessary facilities to boost agriculture have been recommended. The facilities include modern farming equipment, sufficient power supply, credit facility, storage facility, and large markets.

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Sustainable Agriculture, Food Production and Poverty Lessening in Nigeria

Omodero¹

2021

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“…Since great changes take place in the expenditure pattern, part of the effect of public expenditure on human development reflects the distributional impact of the changing composition of expenditure. Expenditure on sectors which help to improve life, reduce poverty and increase employability and productivity are indirect but more assured and sustained way of improving human development (Mundle, 1998;Kaur and Misral, 2003;Omodero., 2019).…”

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Public expenditure and human development in Nigeria in the last decade, composition and distributional impacts

Edeme

Nkalu

2019

Econ Bus Lett

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Beyond the country-level impact, this study evaluates public expenditure in Nigeria in the last decade based on composition and distributional impacts on human development at the state-level considering education, health, agriculture and rural development water resources energy, housing and environmental protection. Using data generated from 20 states from 2007-2017, the empirical analysis indicates that the efficacy of education, health, agriculture and rural development and water resources in improving human development is greater than that of energy, housing and environmental protection expenditure. More interestingly, the positive effect of capital expenditure is mitigated by increased recurrent expenditure. The combination of these factors strongly reduces the capability of public expenditure to foster human development. Based on the distributional impact assessment model, education, health, agriculture and rural development and water resources has positive marginal impact while energy, housing and environmental protection has negative marginal impact. Together, these results further advance the case for improving expenditure on the components and sectors that enhances human development. In other words, the public policy plays a great role in human development expenditure in Nigeria.

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“…These results run counter other research such as (Naz, Chaudhry, Hussain, Daraz, & Khan, 2012; shah, 2016). There is a positive effect between government expenditure and human development (Omodero, 2019). Government spending on human development provides a country with the opportunity to have an appropriate, competent, healthy, and educated workforce to make a meaningful contribution to national development.…”

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confidence: 99%