期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences
电子版ISSN：2141-7024
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：7
页码：319-323
出版社：Scholarlink Resource Centre
摘要：Qualitative education equips people from poor families with literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills, and liftsthem out of poverty. This study presents empirical link between non-formal, primary, secondary, tertiary educationand poverty using quantitative poverty assessment measure. Through the multi-stage sampling technique, 150 ruralhouseholds were selected and primary data were obtained with the aid of questionnaire. Foster, Greer, Thorbeckequantitative poverty measure was employed to decompose and analyse the data. Result of analysis showed that theincidence of poverty was highest (61 percent) among household heads with no formal education and lowest (35percent) among household heads with tertiary education. Findings also revealed that poverty gap and squaredpovertygap decreased with higher educational attainment. A test of difference in the poverty incidence ofhouseholds heads without formal education versus secondary and tertiary education; and primary education versussecondary and tertiary education were significant (p<0.01).Result showed that the incidence of poverty is largestamong the illiterate households and declines consistently by increasing level of education. Results suggest that theincidence of poverty among households is strongly influenced by educational levels. Enhancing educational andtraining opportunities as a pathway out of poverty is a sensible policy option
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