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New metrics for measuring level of poverty

In a paper new metrics are used to delimit poor and non-poor farmers in Nigeria. The terms are international poverty line, national poverty line and community poverty line.  Read more

Correction of forecast error by farmers in Nigeria

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Following Nerlove (1958) and the motivation by Phillip (1988, 1990), the expected price and acreage of sorghum in Nigeria can be obtained using this models developed by Nmadu in 2002. The models are called jobian coefficients.