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ABSTRACT
Recent measures of welfare tend to go beyond the conventional focus on resources to a wide range of other aspects due to the multidimensional nature of quality of life. Such an approach is however limited by lack of clear framework for evaluating quality of life particularly at the micro level. This study evaluates the quality of life, living conditions and the effectiveness of governance in Zaria Local Government Area from an economic perspective. The Capability Deprivation Index (CDI) was developed and estimated across the thirteen wards of the study area. Using a combination of stratified and systematic random sampling, data were collected on key dimensions of quality of life - education, health and living conditions, to determine the nature and extent of capability deprivation and its disparity across the thirteen Wards and Zaria Local Government Area as a whole. With the use of descriptive statistical method of analysis, findings from the study suggest the existence of capability deprivation in all dimensions with great disparity across households. The results also point to living conditions as the greatest source of deprivation, which is evident in poor living standards and significant governance deficit. The study therefore recommends that government should scale up commitments in the living conditions dimension, and welfare intervention policies should be ward-specific based on a scale of preference.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Quality of life is tied to the extent with which the welfare of the people is promoted across space
and time. This can be achieved either through market mechanism as a first-best option, or by way
of government interference as a second-best alternative. From whichever perspective, the role of
government is typically the provision and equitable allocation of public goods (Barr, 1987).
Therefore people’s access to, and effective distribution of goods and services can be an important
yardstick for evaluating quality of life and the effectiveness of governance.
Determination of economic criteria for welfare evaluation has been a subject of debate among
economists. The source of this debate is the inability to decide on purely economic grounds how
the goods and services produced in an economy should be distributed among individuals, arising
from the political, economic, and moral considerations surrounding issues of distribution and
equity (Just, Hueth and Schmitz, 2004). Welfare economics provides an economist with tools of
analysis for making normative statements about the ideal policy choice in any given situation, and
the basis for evaluating the achievements of markets and governments in resource allocation.
The approaches for the assessment of human welfare have evolved from the utility-based to
resource-based approach, and more recently to the capability approach. According to Walle
(1996), the evolution of these approaches can be attributed to three important revolutions in
economics. First is the marginalist revolution associated with the independent works of Calrl
Menger, Leon Walras, and Alfred Marshal. Their most notable contribution is the idea of
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diminishing marginal utilitywhich has been the basis for consumption theory and the backbone of
welfare measurement up to early twentieth century. The second is the ordinalist revolution which,
starting with the work of Lionel Robbins in 1932, synthesized the contributions of the marginalists
into a coherent school of neoclassical economics. The ordinalists maintained that utility is a
subjective concept that can be measured only through revealed preference. The third revolution is
attributed to the work of John Rawls in a 1971 publication A Theory of Justice. Drawing on the
philosophy of Rawls, Amartya Sen developed the capability approach with focuses on human
potentials rather than merely on resources. This is known as the humanist revolution which has
been influential particularly in development policy circles (Cooter and Rappoport, 1984; Stanton,
2007).
Most recently, the evolution is towards an integrated approach that combines all approaches to
welfare with emphasis on sustainable development (see Costanza et al. 2008; Stiglitz, Sen and
Fitoussi, 2009). However, the empirical application of this heterodox approach is limited by a lack
of workable framework for welfare evaluation. In addition, the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) have been used as a framework for public policy and evaluation especially in the
developing world. But as at 2015, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria have
not achieved the targets for MDGs despite sustained periods of growth, calling for a shift of focus
to a post-MDGs world. The prospects of most of these countries even in a post-MDG era are
unclear especially when growth forecasts are being adjusted downwards. As such, it is important
to have a clear and measurable framework for quality of life evaluation as a basis for government
action in less developed countries.
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Empirically, studies on qualityof life use diverse indicators as healthcare, education, housing, and
earnings as components of welfare. However, studies on developed countries focus on happiness
and satisfaction with the components since public goods are available and readily accessible in
those countries. On the other hand, studies on developing countries emphasize on access to such
welfare components due to the prevalence of resource poverty and other forms of deprivations in
less developed countries. For example, observations from reports on a global scale show a wide
disparity in quality of life between the
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