IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/aer/wpaper/de48ed3f-a170-49bc-92ac-75919f4f8dda.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Rural Non-Farm Incomes and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Awoyemi, Taiwo Timothy

Abstract

The study examines some of the factors which determine the type of non-agricultural activities in rural Nigeria an individual engages in. It is argued that diversification from subsistence farming and support for rural on-farm employment opportunities could be poverty-reducing. It has been noticed that an increase in foreign remittances reduces the incidence, depth and severity of poverty in developing countries. This study considers remittances as a source of incomewhich could possibly reduce poverty in the rural sector of the economy.We focus on the non-farmsector because of its potential for development and poverty alleviation in Nigeria.

Suggested Citation

  • Awoyemi, Taiwo Timothy, 2011. "Rural Non-Farm Incomes and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria," Working Papers de48ed3f-a170-49bc-92ac-7, African Economic Research Consortium.
    • Handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:de48ed3f-a170-49bc-92ac-75919f4f8dda
    Note: African Economic Research Consortium
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/123456789/214
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:de48ed3f-a170-49bc-92ac-75919f4f8dda. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Daniel Njiru (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aerccke.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.