Income inequality, unemployment, and poverty in Nigeria: a vector autoregressive approach

Akinbobola, T. O.; Saibu, Olufemi

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“…The authors argue that the goals of infrastructure reforms can only be achieved if such reforms are undertaken in the context of appropriate market and regulatory frameworks. Akinbobola and Saibu (2004) investigate the nexus between income inequality, unemployment and poverty in Nigeria using a vector autoregressive (VAR) approach. In this study, quarterly data on real per capita income, government capital expenditure, unemployment rate and the human development index were sourced for the period 1986-2000 and used for the analysis.…”

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Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

Ogun

2010

Urban Forum

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe paper investigates the impact of infrastructural development on poverty reduction in Nigeria. Specifically, the relative effects of physical and social infrastructure on living standards or poverty indicators are examined, with a view to providing empirical evidence on the implications of increased urban infrastructure for the urban poor. The paper employs secondary data for the period 1970:1 to 2005:4 and the structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) technique is adopted in the analysis. The study unequivocally finds that infrastructural development leads to poverty reduction. Results also show that though infrastructure in general reduces poverty, social infrastructure explains a higher proportion of the forecast error in poverty indicators relative to physical infrastructure. This suggests that massive investment in social infrastructure in cities would drastically reduce poverty in the urban areas.

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Section: Review Of Empirical Studiesmentioning

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Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

Ogun

2010

Urban Forum

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“…On the one hand, life expectancy is believed to be the single most important factor explaining human development (Ivanova, Arcelus, & Srinivasan, 1999;Ogwang & Abdou, 2003). On the other hand, when examining poverty using the HDI in Nigeria, Akinbobola and Saibu (2004) found that decreasing unemployment and generating income provided the best explanatory power to human development. The HDI is not a comprehensive measure, but rather encompasses average achievement (Fakuda-Parr, 2001).…”

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Diffusion of innovation in modeling anti-sex trafficking policy adoption

Minnick

2012

Journal of Comparative Social Welfare

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Because sex trafficking is a global phenomenon, the United Nations placed a call to action to its member nations to develop a comprehensive sex trafficking policy. As might be anticipated, variation occurred among nations in developing policy initiatives. The literature points to this variation but little has been published on understanding the underlying components of the variation. In this article, the characteristics of innovators, the environmental context, and the innovation of comprehensive sex trafficking policy, categorized into nodality, authority, organization, and treasure, are conceptualized, using a diffusion of innovations theoretical framework. Additionally, international indices of the Human Development Index, the Gender Disparity Index, and the Gender Empowerment Measurement are operationalized within the proposed diffusion of innovations model for anti-sex trafficking policy adoption.

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“…Research done by Defina (2002) revealed that revised poverty headcount rate has a much weaker relationship compared to the official headcount poverty rate. Akinbobola & Saibu (2004) used the human capital index to measure poverty found that when public expenditure increases unemployment decrease and the human capital index improves.…”

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Examining the Linkage between Poverty and Macroeconomic Variables in Malaysia: A Co-integration Analysis

Kaur

Jalil

2017

IMBR

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the linkage between the macroeconomic variables i.e. gross domestic product per capita (GDP), unemployment (UNE), tourist receipts (TOU), consumer price index (CPI) and poverty rate (POV) in Malaysia from 1969-2014. The econometric techniques used are unit root test and the Johansen Cointegration. The Granger Causality test using Block Exogeneity Wald test was added to analyze the causal relationships between the variables. The unit root test showed that all variables were stationary at first difference and thus the Johansen Co-integration test is an appropriate technique to employ. The evidence from co-integration test indicates that all the five series have three (3) co-integrating equations and significance at 1 percent level of significance. The causality test indicated there is a significant unidirectional causality between POV on GDP, CPI on POV, POV on TOU, GDP on UNE, GDP on TOU and CPI on TOU and bidirectional causality between POV and UNE. This paper is possibly the first to discuss these relationships in Malaysian context using Co-integration analysis. The finding implies that poverty is the key issue that should be addressed to achieve a high-income country status in the year 2020.

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Income inequality, unemployment, and poverty in Nigeria: a vector autoregressive approach

Cited by 28 publications

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Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

Diffusion of innovation in modeling anti-sex trafficking policy adoption

Examining the Linkage between Poverty and Macroeconomic Variables in Malaysia: A Co-integration Analysis

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