Gender And Poverty Allevation In Nigeria
| dc.contributor.author | Aluko, O.E | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-16T07:54:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-16T07:54:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-10-27 | |
| dc.description | Conference Paper | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Poverty level in Nigeria has been extremely high, with about two thirds of the population below the poverty line in 1996 (FOS, 1999). The situation would have been worse but for the damping effect the period 1985 to 1992 had on poverty, when the rising trend of the earlier period was reversed, before the upward movement resumed again. Specifically, poverty level went up 50% between 1980 and 1985, going from 28.1% to 46.3%. Between 1985)md 1992, there was a drop of about 4 percentage points to 42.7%. However, by 1996, the revel jumped to 65.6%, an increase of more than 50% of the 1992 figures. Over the 16-year period 1980 to 1996, female-headed households were slightly better off poverty wise than their male counterparts. In 1980 the poverty levels were 26.9% and 29.2% respectively, a gap of 2% . In 1985, the gap had increased to 9% but came down slightly to 5% in 1992. However, the gap widened again to 8% in 1996. According to che Federal Office of Statistics (1999), the analysis showed that the major factor leading to this result is the fact that the average size of female : eaded households is generally smaller than that oftheir male counterparts. Consequently, the per capita consumption (pee) (which is the basis of poverty computation) in female-headed households is higher than of maleheaded households. However, the comparison here is in respect of the gender of heads of household and not the gender of all persons in general. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Aluko, O. E (2010) Gender And Poverty Allevation In Nigeria. Being a Paper Presented At 31st Annual Conference Of The NITP In Minna, Niger State. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.unilag.edu.ng:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2253 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gender, Poverty | en_US |
| dc.subject | Population | en_US |
| dc.title | Gender And Poverty Allevation In Nigeria | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
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