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Measuring the Impact of Human Resource Development on Poverty Incidence in Nigeria: A Bound Testing Approach

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  • Abdulrahman Idris Abdulganiyu

    (University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria)

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Research purpose: Eradicating poverty in the world requires some strategies, such as the poor having adequate access to productive assets and increasing their returns on assets, having adequate access to education and health facilities, increasing their access to job prospects, at the same time complementing these resources with other incomes. Hence, the goal of this study is to examine the link between human resources development and poverty in Nigeria, using annual secondary data from the Statistical Bulletin of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1990 to 2020. Design/methodology/approach: The Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Technique was explicitly employed to arrive at the statistical and logical conclusions in determining the impact of human resource development in the face of poverty. In addition, the bound testing approach was used to measure Nigeria’s long-run relationship between human resource development and poverty. Findings: The study revealed that human resource development has a statistically insignificant but non-decreasing impact/effect on poverty incidence in Nigeria, based on the short-run ARDL assessment. Furthermore, the bound testing approach also indicates that there is indeed a long-run relationship between human resource development and poverty incidence in Nigeria. The study, therefore, concludes that poverty is inescapable and, hence, creates underdevelopment. The study advises governments at all levels to develop and implement policies and programs aimed at improving or enhancing the welfare and well-being of the masses through job creation in order to close the income gap between the affluent and the deprived. Originality/value/practical implications: Fighting poverty in Nigeria has been one of the major priorities of most governments in Nigeria. These can be observed from the nationwide planning policies that have been focused on adequate provision of access to both human and natural resources. There has been an enormous call for the massive upgrading of the productive capacity of the people through investment in human resources. This paper is one of the several articles employed to evaluate the impact of human resource development on the incidence of poverty in Nigeria.

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  • Abdulrahman Idris Abdulganiyu, 2022. "Measuring the Impact of Human Resource Development on Poverty Incidence in Nigeria: A Bound Testing Approach," Economics and Culture, Sciendo, vol. 19(2), pages 81-96, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:ecocul:v:19:y:2022:i:2:p:81-96:n:5
    DOI: 10.2478/jec-2022-0018
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    Keywords

    Human Resource Development; Poverty Incidence; Bound Testing;
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    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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