Abstract
The study identified the hotspots and coldspots of poverty as well as the determinants of poverty of each identified group. Data were obtained from National Living Standard Survey and Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire Survey conducted by National Bureau of Statistics. Spatial econometrics technique was used to analyze data. The result of the analysis identified the hotspots and coldspots of poverty with average poverty rates of 82.6% and 31.8% respectively. The positive significance of spatial dependence of hotspots (r = 0.34) and coldspots (r = 0.21) indicated that spillover of poverty existed in significant proportion among senatorial districts in the two groups. Percentage of people employed in agriculture, type of soil, annual rainfall, household membership of association and access to credit are found to be important determinants of poverty in hotspots of poverty in Nigeria. Incorporation of poverty spillover when designing poverty alleviation programme, increased productivity of people employed in agriculture and the need to bridge the infrastructural gap between the hotspot and coldspots could play a significant role in reducing poverty incidence significantly in Nigeria.
Highlights
Poverty in Nigeria is worrisome because of the country’s available natural and human resources
The study revealed that the individual geographic units that made up the country were not independent and isolated entities; but individual entity was surrounded by other geographical units which interacted significantly with one another
The result affirmed that spillover of poverty from one senatorial district to the other was present in significant proportion
Summary
Poverty in Nigeria is worrisome because of the country’s available natural and human resources. The World Bank report [1] established that Nigeria with about 170 million population falls among countries with extreme poverty whose over 70% population live on $1.25 (N200) or even less per day. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) put the poverty rate in Nigeria at 54.4% and 69.0% in 2005 and 2010 respectively, while [2]. Sowunmi and [3] reported 70.2% and 70% respectively. United Nations Habitat [4] put the poverty rate at 76%. With quantum of poor unemployed youth, poverty has been linked with the rising number of youth engaging in social vices such as robbery, 419 activities (including internet fraud), political thugs, campus cultism, drug and human trafficking, militancy and Boko haram insurgence in the northeast which has claimed many lives
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