September 2018

Consumption patterns among individual households in Nasarawa State, Nigeria

The need for economic theory to address the problem of unsustainable consumption patterns in a developing economy, Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. The literature suggests that present consumption patterns which use up economic resources beyond the capacity of the environment to replenish may make development unsustainable. This study analyzed consumption behavior vis-à-vis the factors that weakly or strongly...

Author(s): Joseph M. Ibbih and Peter Siyan