POVERTY REDUCING MECHANISMS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM POPULATION CONTROL AND INCREASE IN ASSET OWNERSHIP IN NIGER STATE
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2018
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LAPAI INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (LIJOMASS)
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Factors that influences poverty either negatively or positively differs with locations such as
hamlets, rural and urban areas, hence the need for individual study factors such as population
control and increasing asset ownership. The paper examined the mechanisms which reduces
poverty in different region with special reference to asset ownership and population control. Using
150 cross-sectional data randomly collected, and employing individual Logistics regression model
(Logit), the result revealed that asset ownership and credit facilities are significant in lowering
poverty in all regions while family size, agricultural activities, low education and increase in living
cost escalate poverty. The study thus, recommends that the overhauling of health and educational
system in the country, as all other factors rely on it, enlightenment and discouragement against
increase in family size, provision of credit facilities, and provision of housing infrastructure to
reduce cost of living.
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Asset ownership, Logit model, Population control, Poverty reducing mechanisms