States Governments Expenditure and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: A Panel Investigation (original) (raw)

Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities, 2018

Abstract

This study examined how expenditure of state governments from the federation account has alleviated poverty level in Nigeria. In order to achieved the objectives of the study, data on poverty level in 36 states of Nigeria, statutory revenue allocated to the states of the federation, value added tax revenue shared to the states, external debt incurred by the states and price level in the states over the period 2011 – 2016 were sourced from the National Bureau of Statistics and the Federal Ministry of Finance and examined using panel and partial eyciency frontier (PEF) analyses. The results of our investigation demonstrated that statutory revenue allocations and value added tax distributed to the tiers of government (states) have serious implication on poverty alleviation and improvement in welfare of the citizens in Nigeria. The study further shows that external debt incurred by states has negative implication on poverty as such debt diminished the welfare of the people by worsening ...

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