Urban Poverty and Households’ Livelihood in Sokoto Metropolis, Sokoto State, Nigeria: A Descriptive Survey
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https://doi.org/10.61143/umyu-jafr.3(1)2022.011Keywords:
Urban poverty, Households, Livelihoods, Descriptive survey, SokotoAbstract
This study explores the effect of urban poverty on households’ livelihoods in Sokoto metropolis using a survey dataset for a sample of four hundred and eight (408) respondents. In the analysis, this study used descriptive statistical techniques such as simple percentage, bar char, pie chart, mean and standard deviation. From the results, this study reveals that urban poverty has negative effect on households’ livelihood in the study area. This is manifested in forms of poor nutrition, rise in starvation and hunger, disruption of income, poor housing conditions, high risk of infectious diseases and rise in the incidence of crime and violence. Others negative manifestations of urban poverty on households’ welfare are low living standard, low life expectancy, increase in unemployment, lack of fund to finance children education and rise in the use of drug. Based on the results, this study recommends the following: firstly, government should invest more in real sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing in order to create more employment and reduce poverty. Secondly, government and relevant stakeholders should focus more on human capital development such as education (especially entrepreneurship education) and health sectors. Finally, there is need for the government to collaborates with relevant financial institutions and wealthy individuals to construct more housing estates at subsidize prices with view to improve the housing condition.
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