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Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

Author: T. P. Ogun

Published in: Urban Forum | Issue 3/2010

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The paper investigates the impact of infrastructural development on poverty reduction in Nigeria. Specifically, the relative effects of physical and social infrastructure on living standards or poverty indicators are examined, with a view to providing empirical evidence on the implications of increased urban infrastructure for the urban poor. The paper employs secondary data for the period 1970:1 to 2005:4 and the Structural Vector Autoregressive technique is adopted in the analysis. The study unequivocally finds that infrastructural development leads to poverty reduction. Results also show that though infrastructure in general reduces poverty, social infrastructure explains a higher proportion of the forecast error in poverty indicators relative to physical infrastructure. This suggests that massive investment in social infrastructure in cities would drastically reduce poverty in the urban areas.

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Title: Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria
Author: T. P. Ogun
Publication date: 01-08-2010
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Urban Forum / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Electronic ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-010-9091-8

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