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Publication date: 10 April 2017

Nneji Ifeyinwa Umeokeke, Victor Olusegun Okoruwa and Temitayo Adenike Adeyemo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of e-wallet on farmer’s welfare in Nigeria.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of e-wallet on farmer’s welfare in Nigeria.

Design/methodology/approach

Primary data were used to collect information on 81 users and 123 non-users of e-wallet system. Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) analysis was used to profile farmer’s poverty status, while propensity score matching (PSM) was used to assess the impact of e-wallet on welfare using per capita expenditure as its proxy.

Findings

The FGT analysis shows that poverty incidence, depth, and severity were found to be higher among non-users of e-wallet than its users. The PSM analysis showed that e-wallet had a positive impact on welfare; Rosenbaum sensitivity analysis revealed that the findings are sensitive to hidden bias due to unobserved characteristics.

Research limitations/implications

The relevance of matching method depends on data availability for the specific policy problem. Hence, the study is limited to the use of the PSM because of the limitation of household data availability to only a sample of farmers in Oyo State.

Originality/value

This paper examines the impact of the new system of input distribution (e-wallet) on farmer’s welfare.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 44 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 11 January 2016

Kolawole Ogundari, Shoichi Ito and Victor O Okoruwa

– The purpose of this paper is to examine how the intakes of calories, proteins, and fats vary with income in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the intakes of calories, proteins, and fats vary with income in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Design/methodology/approach

Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for analysis. Nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel Curve framework, using a feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) technique that is robust to autocorrelation.

Findings

The estimated nutrient-income elasticities are small: a 10 percent increase in income will lead, respectively, to rises of about 0.73, 0.87, and 0.90 percent in calories, proteins, and fats intake; showing that policies that are aimed at eliminating malnutrition through only the growth of per capita income will have positive but limited impacts. The estimated aggregate Engel Curve and the non-parametric plots show that at higher income levels the relationship between income and nutrient intake is non-linear and diminished, suggesting a low likelihood for the manifestation of an obesity epidemic in SSA.

Originality/value

This is the very study that attempts to look at the nutrition-income elasticities at cross-country level in SSA.

Details

Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 43 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-3585

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Publication date: 4 December 2017

Busayo Bidemi Adeyemi, Victor Olusegun Okoruwa and Adesola Ikudaisi

The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of rice millers and determine factors influencing cost efficiency in Southwest Nigeria using the cost route approach.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of rice millers and determine factors influencing cost efficiency in Southwest Nigeria using the cost route approach.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper analyses cost efficiency of rice millers using primary data collected from 62 respondents through a structured questionnaire. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed for this purpose. The profile of rice millers and mills were derived using the descriptive analysis. Cost efficiency of the millers was obtained using the quadratic cost function analysis, and Tobit regression was used to determine factors that influence cost efficiency.

Findings

The results showed that cost efficiency indexes range from 1 to 57 percent averaging at 20.2 percent. Large rice mills were found to be most efficient with the mean cost efficiency of 25 percent. Paddy, transport and energy costs contributed positively and significantly (p=0.05 and p=0.01) to cost efficiency. Milling capacity and machine age increase cost efficiency while the distance to purchase paddy and quantity of diesel used reduces cost efficiency.

Social implications

The paper shows that there is enough potential for rice millers to improve their cost efficiency based on the available technology. This has a direct implication on the economy through the increased domestic production and processing of rice to meet the increasing demand for locally produced rice.

Originality/value

The paper attempts to bridge the gap in the literature of cost efficiency among rice millers in Nigeria, and specifically in the application of the normalized quadratic cost function in estimating cost efficiency in the rice milling sector in Nigeria.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 44 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 23 December 2024

Temitayo Adenike Adeyemo, Victor Okoruwa and Akinsola Oyebanji

This paper decomposes intra-household gender differentials in resource allocation in Nigerian agricultural households. Gender differences in agricultural households affect…

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Purpose

This paper decomposes intra-household gender differentials in resource allocation in Nigerian agricultural households. Gender differences in agricultural households affect livelihood resources and productivity in Nigeria as in many countries.

Design/methodology/approach

Intersection of sex and age define gender as young male, young female, adult male and adult female within each household. Status of resource allocation was examined across the gendered groups. With the use of Oaxaca-Blinder, the mean outcome of resource allocation across the four gender groups was decomposed into components parts.

Findings

Resource allocation was generally low among farming actors, with young males, adult and young females situating below the household average. Equal endowment with adult males would have increased resources for young males, as well as young and adult females, respectively by up to 0.21, 0.07 and 0.01. The returns effects were largely significant for young and adult females.

Practical implications

The findings provide the premise to increase opportunities for female agricultural actors to access resources for their livelihood activities. Policies reducing the inequality between males and females in the Nigerian agricultural systems in terms of access to resources are recommended.

Social implications

This study fits into the implementation of global goals to enhance gender equality and sustainable outcomes through inclusive access to productive resources in the Nigerian agrifood system.

Originality/value

This study operationalized gender as the intersectionality of sex and age; obtained in many African settings. This helped to capture differences in roles, opportunities and constraints within agricultural livelihoods.

Peer review

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-04-2024-0322

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 8 May 2019

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African Economic Development
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78743-784-5

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