Browsing by Author "Atsiya, Pius Amos"

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    DEBT BURDEN AND SUSTAINED FISCAL DEFICIT IN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
    (Department of Economics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2009-09-04) Henry, Ahmed Eggon; Atsiya, Pius Amos
    Base on debt related theories, it is expected a'priori that debts contracted should transcend into improvements in the economic performance of a country. But a survey of the Nigerian economy between 1987- 2005 when significant amount of external debts were contracted using ratios, percentages and tables indicated the contrary and it was suspected that reasons such as, using short term loans to finance long term projects, political rather than economic viability as the criterion for the used of such loans and so on were identified. Again, the rising debt profile oft he country after its exit from the Paris Club necessitated some policy recommendations such as redefining the criteria used in obtaining loans, minimization of debts, the strict enforcement of Decree No, 30 of 1978 among others as measures to ensure the sustainability oft he current debt to avoid another debt trap.
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    Intimate Partner Violence and Maternal Health in Nigeria: Implications for Coronavirus Disease (COVTD-19) Lockdown Measure
    (Department of Political Science, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-12-12) Atsiya, Pius Amos; Atsiya, Godiya Pius
    A domestic violence cases is a pattern being repeated A very recent article published in The Guardian (2020) reported on how the surge of domestic violence cases is a pattern being repeated very recent article published in The Guardian (2020) reported on how the surge of domestic violence cases is a pattern being repeated Among measures recommended by the World Health organization to stem the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus is the restriction of population movement (lockdown). With the lockdown, there appear to be a global surge in intimate partner violence (IPV) and how this impact on maternal health is the motivation for this study. Understanding IPV and how it influences maternal health, within an economic framework will be potentially relevant especially with the increasing use of lockdown to curb the surge of the virus. In this study, we identify factors of domestic violence against women within couples who were currently in marital or cohabiting partnerships. Also, we investigate whether domestic violence influences the decision of women to terminate pregnancies. We use data from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Multivariate logistic regressions were used to model the predictors of domestic violence, and its influence on the decision to terminate pregnancies among married women. Of the 8,910 married women interviewed for domestic violence, 35.33% had ever experienced a form of domestic violence. We discover that having higher education, not being poor, and residing in urban areas reduce the odds of women experiencing domestic violence. Further, findings from the study indicate that women who own land, and whose husbands use alcohol have increased odds of experiencing domestic violence. Also, the results suggest that currently married women experiencing domestic violence have 1.25 times increased odds of terminating pregnancies compared with their counterparts that are not experiencing domestic violence. Our results suggest the implementation of short-term measures to address the issues of poverty and alcohol consumption during lockdown periods. Long-term measures could include legislations supporting compulsory girl-child education and criminalising all forms of domestic violence. Importantly, public actions to contain domestic violence in order to improve maternal health should be implemented in the context of the dynamics of a noncooperative relationship existing between married couples.
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    Land Ownership, Household bargaining Power and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from the NDHS
    (Department of Political Science, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2019-06-16) Atsiya, Pius Amos; Atsiya, Godiya Pius; Agbutun, Shedrack Adzugbele
    The Demand Side Financing option to eliminate financial barrier to uptake of child health interventions in developing countries can be analyse from the dimension of intrafamilial resource allocation within households. An understanding of the operation of domestic economy is potentially relevant in stimulating demand for child health. The role of women land ownership status in influencing household decision making and consequently child health-outcome was investigated in this study. The Noncooperative model, particularly the Separate sphere model was taken to a Nigerian Demographic Health Survey data. Specifically, the propensity score model was used to estimate the causal treatment effect of women land ownership status on the nutrition of children (stunting and wasting). We uncover a reduced probability (3%), on average, of a child becoming stunted if the mother owns land. The effect size was however reduced (0.7%) when a more robust treatment indicator-LandRight was used. The wasting model corroborates the stunting outcome but with improved and statistically significant treatment effect (2%) when the Land Right was controlled for. Our findings were robust to different propensity score methods such as the Nearest Neighbour Matching, Inverse Probability Weight, and Regression Adjustment among others. Taken together, this evidence is suggestive of a negative Average Treatment Effect (ATE) associated with mere land ownership among women in Nigeria. In effect, land ownership right is likely to reduce the probability of children becoming either stunted or wasted.
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    Marital Domestic Violence and Maternal Health in Nigeria: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey
    (Department of Political Science, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-03-01) Atsiya, Pius Amos; Mainoma, Hauwa'u M.; Atsiya, Godiya Pius
    There is increasing evidence that the non-cooperative models describe household structures in developing countries more succinctly compared with the unitary model. Domestic violence against women, which is pervasive in Nigeria even though likely to be under-reported, will need to be understood within the framework of noncooperative relationship between couples. In this study, we identify factors of domestic violence against women within couples who were currently in marital or cohabiting partnerships. Also, we investigate whether domestic violence influences the decision of women to terminate pregnancies. We use data from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Multivariate logistic regressions were used to model the predictors of domestic violence, and its influence on the decision to terminate pregnancies among married women. Of the 8,910 married women interviewed for domestic violence, 35.33% had ever experienced a form of domestic violence. We discover that women: with higher education, that is not poor, and resides in urban areas have 44%, 18% and 15% reductions in the odds of experience domestic violence respectively. On the other hand, women who are employed, own land, having husbands/partners that are employed in the agricultural sector, and drink alcohol have 1.16, 1.2, 2.07. and 2.8 times increased odds of experiencing domestic violence accordingly. Also, we uncover that currently married women experiencing domestic violence have 1.25 times increased odds of terminating pregnancies compared with their counterparts that are not experiencing domestic violence. Effectively, poverty, low levels of education, residing in rural areas, drinking habit of husbands/partners, employment, marital capital, and land ownership status of women are risk factors of domestic violence against married women in Nigeria but can be affected by policies and programmes. Importantly, public actions to contain domestic violence in order to improve maternal health should be implemented in the context of the dynamics of a non-cooperative relationship existing between married couples.
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    MASS MEDIA EXPOSURE AND ANTENATAL CARE VISITS IN NIGERIA
    (Department of Political Science, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-08-23) Atsiya, Pius Amos; Atsiya, Godiya Pius; Abdullahi, Abubakar Okuwa
    The Nigeria high maternal mortality ratio of 917 per 100,000 live births despite international and domestic health actions will require identifying the major contributors to maternal mortality and investigating their determinants. Low utilization of antenatal care is considered a major contributor to maternal mortality. In this study, we investigate the role of mass media exposure on the decision of women to have antenatal care visits, frequency of care, and timeliness of care using the 2018 Nigeria demographic health survey data. We discovered that women that are exposed to mass media are more likely to have at least one antenatal care visit. They are also likely to meet the recommended four and eight antenatal care visits recommended by the World Health Organization. We identified other predictors of having at least one, four and eight antenatal care visits to include women health autonomy, education, parity, wealth index and living in rural area. These factors (except for mass media exposure) were identified as predictors of having one visit in the first trimester. The design of any effective antenatal care programme will require adequate publicity and specific targeting of poor women urban women with parity but low education