Land Deals and Sustainable Income: The Case of a Rural Community in Ogun State, Nigeria
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Hershey PA, USA 17033
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This chapter examines the extent to which land deals affect the sustainable income of households in Ota,
Ogun State, Nigeria. Particular interest is paid to the interplay between land deals and other covariates
like education, age, and other incomes aside land deals. A survey consisting of about 500 Ota indigenes
is analyzed using logistic regression, which is complemented by other descriptive statistics. The results
reveal that land deals have not sufficiently and positively affected the income of the individuals. On
sustainability of income, land deals act in direct opposition with the other covariates. This implies that
when land deals significantly affect sustainable income the other variables act otherwise. The implication
from this is that land deals are not a sustainable source of income for indigenes in the study area.
This is particularly because its inclusion in the model has an adverse effect on the other covariates
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H Social Sciences (General)