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Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Adewara, Sunday Olabisi"

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    Abnormal Body Weight and its Socioeconomic Determinants: Evidence from Nigeria
    (Journal of Economic & Management Perspectives,, 2018) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
    Obesity and overweight are among the major contributors to the global burden of diseases as measured by Disability-Adjusted Life Years due to its capability of increasing the risks of health related diseases. Strand of literature has focused on the biological factor with less emphasis on socioeconomic factors. Using dataset from the 2013 National Population for Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), this study applies binary probit regression model to examine the socioeconomic determinants of overweight and obesity in Nigeria. The study came up with the following broad stylized facts for overweight and obesity. The socioeconomic determinants of probability of overweight were age, gender, marital status, household size, education years, rural locality, wealth index (if poor), ethnicities and educated female. More so, age, female gender, marital status, household size, education years and educated female influence the probability of overweight among households positively; while age, rural locality, poverty and ethnicities influence the probability of overweight among households negatively. Also, the socioeconomic determinants of probability of obesity are age, female gender, marital status, household size, education years, rural locality, wealth index (if poor), ethnicities, poor female, educated female and educated poor. Finally, the study recommends public health education, cultural and value re-orientation among others as solution to the problem of overweight and obesity in Nigeria
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    Analysis of the Effects of Climate Change on Crop Output in Nigeria
    (American Journal of Climate Change, 2017) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
    This study investigates the effects of climate change factors and non-climate change factors on crop output in Nigeria. Empirical research approach was adopted with the use of secondary sources of time series annual data obtained from reputable sources for the period 1980-2013. Error Correction Mechanism was used for the analysis. It was found that in the short run, only rainfall tested significantly positive to crop output among the climate change factors but there is evidence of significant effects of all climate change factors on crop output in the long-run. For example, temperature, carbon dioxide emission, carbon emission and rainfall were tested significantly to crop output. Furthermore, non-climate change factors like economically active population, gross capital formation, and land area equipped for irrigation were significantly positive to crop output. To forestall the effects of climate change on crop output, the study recommends that policy makers should formulate policies that will aid farmers towards adaptation practices in farming that can mitigate the effects of climate change. Furthermore, governments and other relevant agencies should also design programmes that can motivate the masses to increase their involvement in crop production.
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    Composition of Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria
    (Scholarlink Research Institute Journals, 2012) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
    We explore the relationship between the composition of public expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria. Government expenditure is expected to be means of reducing the negative impacts of market failure on the economy. However, allocations of public expenditure with lack of consideration for the urgent needs of the country may engender greater distortion in the economy which may be detrimental to growth. To this end, we have analyzed the relationship between public expenditure compositions from 1960 to 2008 on economic growth using the vector Autoregressive models (VAR). The finding shows that expenditure on education has failed to enhance economic growth due to the high rate of rent seeking in the country as well as the growing rate of unemployment. We also noted that expenditure on health and agriculture should be encourage due to their positive contributions to growth while further studies is necessary to identify empirically why public expenditure on water and education are negatively related with growth
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    Decomposing Inequality in the Incidence of Obesity in Nigeria
    (ISDS LLC, Japan, 2018) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
    This study examines the socioeconomic factors responsible for income and gender related inequalities in the prevalence of obesity in Nigeria. It uses the 2013 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) on Nigeria for all the analyses. Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition was used to identified and explained socioeconomics factors responsible for disparities in the incidence of obesity in the country. The decomposition results show that females are more likely to be obese than males while the rich are more likely to be obese than the poor. Endowment and coefficient effects contributed to the gender obesity while the coefficient and interaction effects contribute significantly to the gap due to differences in income levels. Finally, the study recommends awareness creation, indoor physical exercises, balance diet, public health education, cultural and value re-orientation and establishing gymnasium, especially for rich and female households, as solution to the problem of overweight and obesity in Nigeria.
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    Effects of Access to Infrastructure on Individual Subjective Wellbeing in Ilorin South, Nigeria
    (Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences, 2017) Adewara, Sunday Olabisi
    This study analyzed the effects of access to basic infrastructure on the subjective wellbeing of citizens in urban Ilorin South Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examine the effects of: access to water, provision of electricity, cleaner cooking methods and access to toilet on the subjective wellbeing of the people in the study area. A simple random survey method was used to administer carefully designed questionnaires in the Local Government Area in 2014. An ordered probit regression method was used to analyse the collected data. Our results show that, access to safe drinking water, sanitation, frequency of medical check-up, cleaner cooking energy, socialization and subjective health status are significant positive determinants of individuals‘ subjective wellbeing. The relationship between subjective wellbeing and access to electricity, gender and the interaction of education and income (eduincome) are not significant from our result. The study recommends that policy makers should make safe drinking water and sanitation more accessible to the citizens and as well encourage frequent medical check-up and usage of cleaner cooking methods in order to improve citizens‘ subjective wellbeing in the study area. This study clearly shows that provision of infrastructure is an important determinant of subjective wellbeing which is the main purpose of this paper. In addition, it will be very easy for government to maintain peace and order in the country if infrastructure is provided due to its positive relationship with wellbeing since most of the crises in the country are caused partly by inadequate provision of essential services such as infrastructure.