Browsing by Author "IJAIYA, Muftau Adeniyi"

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    Access to Microfinance and Millennium Development Goals (MDGS): A Review of the impact on Developing Countries
    (Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania., 2016) IJAIYA, Muftau Adeniyi; ABDULKADIR, Rihanat Idowu; SALAM, Mudathir Olanrewaju; ABDULRAHEEM, Abdulrasheed; ABDULLAHI, Ibrahim Bello; AJAYI, Micheal Adebayo
    Access to microfinance is seen as one of the practical development strategies and approaches that could be implemented to attain the bold ambition of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The objective of this paper is to discuss the impact of microfinance on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The study, through theory and numerous empirical studies, observed that access to finance is an important direct or indirect contributor to the achievement of the most of the goals in rural areas, because it reduces income inequality and poverty of the rural poor - key goal of the MDGs. Thus, the study suggests that government action should focus on institutional best practices for expanding and mainstreaming sustainable microfinance in every facet of the economy. There is need to also improve the dismal performance in children undernutrition, school enrolment, mortality rate, access to drinkable water, etc in post MDGs programme in order to improve and sustain the achievement recorded by the MDGs.
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    Informal Microfinance and Primary Health care in Ekiti LGA, Kwara state, Nigeria.
    (Brown Walker Press, 2011) IJAIYA, Muftau Adeniyi; IJAIYA, Gafar T.; BELLO, Raji A.; IJAIYA, Mukaila A.; ABDULKADIR, Rihanat Idowu; LAWAL, Wahab A.; SALAM, Mudathir Olanrewaju
    Microfinance provides a promising platform to expand health access and coverage for rural poor that are mostly farmers and urban poor who are in the informal sector of the economy through organized groups. Health in rural area is accessed through primary health and community care which is the most visible and commonly used part of the health system. Using a multi regression analysis, this study examines the impact of informal microfinance on primary healthcare. The study shows that there is positive relationship between informal microfinance and primary healthcare. However, poor funding that manifest in inadequate number of health staff with skills appropriate to the health priorities of rural areas; poor maintenance of equipment; inadequate drugs, etc coupled with diminishing confidence in public sector health facilities; rapid population growth, political instability; non-existence rural workforce policies and strategies etc, as well as the spartan living conditions in rural areas made health care services inaccessible to the rural people. The study thus recommend a regular higher savings and prompt repayment of loan in order to sustain the activities of informal microfinance, so that clients can have more access to fund to meet their health needs. Government should also complement the activities of the informal microfinance by ensuring that drugs are available and cheap in the rural areas of Ekiti. Besides, government should recruit health staff with skills that are appropriate to the health priorities of rural areas, maintain poor equipments, and bring health facilities closer to the rural areas. This will reduce the money spent by the rural dwellers on travelling to receive healthcare.
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    SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SUPPLY, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND FOREIGFN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN WEST AFRICA
    (2023-06-01) AINA, Taiye John; IJAIYA, Muftau Adeniyi; KOLAWOLE, Kayode David; MUSTAPHA, Ganiyu Adebayo
    Foreign direct investment (FDI), is regarded as one of the most important contributors of economic growth. However, West Africa is one of the most corrupt of any region in the world which affect the inflows of foreign direct investment into the region. Hence, the study examined the impact of sustainable energy supply, institutional quality and foreign direct investment in West Africa. The study sampled the entire West African countries. Secondary data was employed sourced from the World Development Indicator covering the period of 2000 to 2021. The study employed dynamic panel Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, cross-sectional auto-regressive distributed regression (ARDL) and Dumitrescu and Hurlin Panel Causality Tests. The findings from the study showed that access to electricity (β = 2.0311; p < 0.01) have a positive influence on foreign direct investment. The study also revealed that electricity production (β = .7028; p < 0.01) have significant impact on foreign direct investment. The study further revealed that rule of law (β = 3.450; p < 0.01) is a significant determinant of foreign direct investment. It was also revealed that: control of corruption (β =.0998; p < 0.01) has significant impact on foreign direct investment. Finally, the study revealed that electricity production and foreign direct investment had uni-directional causality. The study concluded that energy supply and institutional quality have impact on foreign direct investment to West African countries. The study recommended that governments of various nations in West Africa countries should improve on the level of investment in the energy sector as energy supply is seen as a major cause of having low attraction of foreign direct investment in the region. In addition, government should strengthen the quality of their institutions such as the rule of law, political stability, control of corruption, government effectiveness, and voice and accountability, thereby reducing the risk of foreign investors and increase the level of foreign direct investment in West Africa.