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Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo

Poverty is a phenomenon that is affecting our society negatively. Its scorch keeps on biting harder despite the rate in which revenue is rising in Nigeria in the Fourth Republic (1999-2020). Gombe State is one of the states that is categorised among the poorest in Nigeria for a decade. Poverty is af...

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Main Authors: Sule, Babayo, Sambo, Usman
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA 2020
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Population geography. Migration
Population research
Poor. Poverty
Protection, assistance and relief
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spelling my.uitm.ir.473742022-07-01T05:35:07Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47374/ Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo Sule, Babayo Sambo, Usman Population geography. Migration Population research Poor. Poverty Protection, assistance and relief Poverty is a phenomenon that is affecting our society negatively. Its scorch keeps on biting harder despite the rate in which revenue is rising in Nigeria in the Fourth Republic (1999-2020). Gombe State is one of the states that is categorised among the poorest in Nigeria for a decade. Poverty is affecting the socioeconomic and political wellbeing of Gombe State in many perspectives. This paper examined the issues and perspectives of poverty in Gombe State particularly the causes, manifestations and strategies of reduction. The work used primary and secondary sources of data collection where some respondents were selected through a simple random sampling for questionnaire administration and other key stakeholders were identified for an in-depth interview. The secondary source involves documents such as books, reports, journals and internet sources. The data obtained were presented and analysed using statistical tools such as tables and charts where applicable. The paper concludes that; poverty is caused mainly due to poor government’s macro and micro economic policies and that poverty level in Gombe State has reached an unbearable index of 74.6 % according to the research and also the National Bureau of Statistics report which ranked the State the fourth poorest State in the country in 2019. The paper recommends that, for poverty to be alleviated in Gombe State, there should be a comprehensive and integrated approach via well designed policies such as Conditional Cash Transfer, development of agricultural sector, small scale industrialisation and youth empowerment schemes. It is also recommended that some models like Brazilian Bolsa Familia Prograsmme and Malaysian social investment and empowerment should be considered. Universiti Teknologi MARA 2020-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47374/1/47374.pdf Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo. (2020) Journal of Administrative Science, 17 (2). pp. 109-139. ISSN 1675-1302 http://jas.uitm.edu.my/
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topic Population geography. Migration
Population research
Poor. Poverty
Protection, assistance and relief
spellingShingle Population geography. Migration
Population research
Poor. Poverty
Protection, assistance and relief
Sule, Babayo
Sambo, Usman
Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo
description Poverty is a phenomenon that is affecting our society negatively. Its scorch keeps on biting harder despite the rate in which revenue is rising in Nigeria in the Fourth Republic (1999-2020). Gombe State is one of the states that is categorised among the poorest in Nigeria for a decade. Poverty is affecting the socioeconomic and political wellbeing of Gombe State in many perspectives. This paper examined the issues and perspectives of poverty in Gombe State particularly the causes, manifestations and strategies of reduction. The work used primary and secondary sources of data collection where some respondents were selected through a simple random sampling for questionnaire administration and other key stakeholders were identified for an in-depth interview. The secondary source involves documents such as books, reports, journals and internet sources. The data obtained were presented and analysed using statistical tools such as tables and charts where applicable. The paper concludes that; poverty is caused mainly due to poor government’s macro and micro economic policies and that poverty level in Gombe State has reached an unbearable index of 74.6 % according to the research and also the National Bureau of Statistics report which ranked the State the fourth poorest State in the country in 2019. The paper recommends that, for poverty to be alleviated in Gombe State, there should be a comprehensive and integrated approach via well designed policies such as Conditional Cash Transfer, development of agricultural sector, small scale industrialisation and youth empowerment schemes. It is also recommended that some models like Brazilian Bolsa Familia Prograsmme and Malaysian social investment and empowerment should be considered.
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title Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo
title_short Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo
title_full Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo
title_fullStr Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo
title_full_unstemmed Analysing poverty profile in Gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo
title_sort analysing poverty profile in gombe state: a projection for reduction strategies / babayo sule and usman sambo
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