Entrepreneurship

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    The Relationship between Poverty and Energy Use in Niger State
    (UMYUK Journal of Economics and Development (UJED), 2018) Musa Abdullahi Sakanko; Joseph David
    The paper examined the relationship between poverty and energy use in Niger state, Nigeria using a cross-sectional data randomly collected from 156 respondents in the State across the three senatorial zones. Employing descriptive statistics and Logit regression model, the result obtained revealed the existence of an inverse relationship between poverty and energy use in Niger state and statistically significant, while a proportionate relationship between income level and energy use was established which upheld the energy ladder hypothesis. Availability and affordability of modern energy relative to traditional energy negatively influence the use of modern energy in the state. The study thus recommends the actions of the government towards the reduction of poverty and increasing income level of individuals in the state as well as the enhancement of the availability and affordability of modern energy sources in the state.
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    Financial inclusion and Poverty reduction
    (Aryan Digital Press, 2020) Nurudeen Abu; Musa Abdullahi Sakanko
    Over time, it has been argued that economic growth is a powerful instrument for poverty reduction, the improvement of the standard of living and quality of life in developing countries. However, in recent times, increasing economic growth has not been influencing poverty reduction significantly and among other precarious development indicators, especially in developing countries. And with the growing number of extreme poverty resulting from lack of out-of-pocket among low-income households, this had prompted the principle of financial inclusion to become globally accepted due to poverty reduction role play in society. It is on this note that this chapter reviews the importance of financial inclusion on poverty reduction, the effect of financial exclusion on poor, financial education and how financial institutions can enhance financial inclusion to perform better poverty eradication roles. Thus, it concludes that financial inclusion provides a low-income household with affordable financial credit to jumpstart business which generates income to improve the living standard thus reducing poverty. It gives the household an opportunity to create values and use them to provide basic needs such as education, health, and nutrition. It also provides standby finance for health spending in case of health shocks through insurance and health savings accounts.
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    An Econometric Analysis of Causality between Poverty and Crises in Northern Nigeria
    (SEISENSE Journal of Management, 2018) Musa Abdullahi Sakanko
    The study focuses on the analysis of the causality between poverty and crises in northern Nigeria using the Granger causality test and the ARDL bound testing techniques. The study revealed the presence of causality running from poverty to crises and not the other way round as well as co-integration among the pairs. The long-run estimate thus showing poverty exhibiting a positive effect on crises which deviates from the negative relationship obtained in the short-run. The study thus recommends employing poverty reducing mechanism in the region coupled with the overhauling of the agricultural sector as most of the labor force in the region are unskilled which can be easily absorbed in the sector.
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    Advancing inclusive growth in Nigeria: the role of financial inclusion in poverty, inequality, household expenditure, and unemployment
    (Indonesian Journal of Islamic Economics Research, 2020) Musa Abdullahi Sakanko; Joseph David; Aliyu Musari Onimisi
    This study employs ARDL bounds testing technique to examine the effect of financial inclusion on inclusive growth in Nigeria, using quarterly data from 2007-2018. The empirical evidence reveals the presence of cointegration between financial inclusion indicators (account ownership, access to bank, ATM and credit, loans to SMEs and internet usage) and inclusive growth (poverty, household expenditure, employment, and per capita income). The results demonstrate that, while increase in account ownership, and access to bank and ATM raise poverty, and access to credit, loans to SMEs and internet usage reduces employment and per capita income in the long-run, it was also discovered that access to credit reduce poverty and increase household consumption, while account ownership and access to bank increases employment and per capita income in the long-run. In the short-run: lag of account ownership, access to ATM and credit, loan to SMEs and internet usage reduces poverty; lag of household expenditure, account ownership, and access to ATM and lag of internet usage increases household expenditure; lags of access to ATM and lags of internet usage (and account ownership and access to the bank) increases employment opportunities (and per capita income), and access to ATM and credit reduces employment and per capita income respectively.