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01.08.2010

Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

verfasst von: T. P. Ogun

Erschienen in: Urban Forum | Ausgabe 3/2010

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Abstract

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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1
For a fuller exposition of SVAR one can consult Sims (1980a, 1980b), Amisano and Giannini (1997) and Breitung et al. (2004).
 
2
The adoption of a non-recursive identification scheme is justified because the impulse response function derived from it does not depend on the ordering of variables in the SVAR system.
 
3
Asogu (1996) examines the various nonparametric methods of interpolating annual statistical series into quarterly time series.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria
verfasst von
T. P. Ogun
Publikationsdatum
01.08.2010
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Urban Forum / Ausgabe 3/2010
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-010-9091-8

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