The effort to alleviate poverty traditionally in Nigeria was based principally on natural capital, physical or produced capital, human capital and financial capital. The missing link in these four types of capital is social capital. This book is a product of guided research meant to examine the influence of social capital and micro credit on poverty status of rural farm households in the biggest black nation in the world. The research was conducted by seasoned scholars with great expertise in econometric modelling and households survey. This masterpiece is a sure guide, companion and a...

Traditionally, households in developing economies have remained source(s)of labour to farms and off-farms.Gaps however, have existed on issues associated with gender on supply of labour to units where such labour are needed.This study empirically has estimated Full-time equivalence of supplied labour and their associated incomes in farms and rural off-farm works.The investigation is a treatise that not only exposed factors that influenced labour supplies along gender lines to farms and off-farm jobs but estimated gender differences in incomes earned by households.It is a study that will be of...