Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas

The paper adopts quantitative and qualitative instrument using Partial Least Square (PLS) to establish the statistical relationship between two anti-poverty programs and poverty reduction.The findings underscore that National Fadama Development Project III is significantly related to poverty allevi...

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Main Authors: Idris, Abu, Yusof, Rohana
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20380/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2012.pdf
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author Idris, Abu
Yusof, Rohana
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description The paper adopts quantitative and qualitative instrument using Partial Least Square (PLS) to establish the statistical relationship between two anti-poverty programs and poverty reduction.The findings underscore that National Fadama Development Project III is significantly related to poverty alleviation and prime beneficial to the target beneficiaries. However, the relationship between Niger State Commercial Agriculture and Credit Scheme (NSCACS) and poverty alleviation was insignificant as a result of systemic failure especially corruption, manifest disrespect of institutional law, apparent impunity vis-a-vis perpetual evasion of justice among the stakeholders. Since the programs focused on a common objective of poverty alleviation and also generate its funds from the same sources, this paper calls for the harmonization of the duo programs to curtail waste of scarce resource and accord the phenomenon a more desirable attention. Hence, the study proposed a model to serves as a coping strategy and road map to addressing the challenge of fiscal policies and ensure prudency. The study further recommends for structural transformation of judicial institution to combat corruption and lead a crusade for the restoration of the good virtues that is rooted in public service to enhance a hitch free application of rule of law as a stepping stone to facilitate economic development and poverty alleviation.
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spelling uum-203802016-12-19T01:05:34Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20380/ Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas Idris, Abu Yusof, Rohana HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare S Agriculture (General) The paper adopts quantitative and qualitative instrument using Partial Least Square (PLS) to establish the statistical relationship between two anti-poverty programs and poverty reduction.The findings underscore that National Fadama Development Project III is significantly related to poverty alleviation and prime beneficial to the target beneficiaries. However, the relationship between Niger State Commercial Agriculture and Credit Scheme (NSCACS) and poverty alleviation was insignificant as a result of systemic failure especially corruption, manifest disrespect of institutional law, apparent impunity vis-a-vis perpetual evasion of justice among the stakeholders. Since the programs focused on a common objective of poverty alleviation and also generate its funds from the same sources, this paper calls for the harmonization of the duo programs to curtail waste of scarce resource and accord the phenomenon a more desirable attention. Hence, the study proposed a model to serves as a coping strategy and road map to addressing the challenge of fiscal policies and ensure prudency. The study further recommends for structural transformation of judicial institution to combat corruption and lead a crusade for the restoration of the good virtues that is rooted in public service to enhance a hitch free application of rule of law as a stepping stone to facilitate economic development and poverty alleviation. 2016-10-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/20380/1/ICOGPA%202016%201%2012.pdf Idris, Abu and Yusof, Rohana (2016) Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas. In: International Conference on Government & Public Affairs 2016 (ICOGPA2016), October 5th - 6th, 2016, School of Government, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. http://icogpa2016.weebly.com/
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Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
title Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
title_full Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
title_fullStr Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
title_full_unstemmed Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
title_short Realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation: A holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
title_sort realities of agricultural intervention programs on poverty alleviation a holistic framework for sustainable intervention agenda for rural areas
topic HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
S Agriculture (General)
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