Quest Journals Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 9 ~ Issue 8 (2021)pp: 68-77 ISSN(Online):2321-9467 www.questjournals.org *Corresponding Author: Ali Kole 68 | Page Assessment of the Impact of Quality Of Life, Living Conditions and Government Effectiveness on Socio-Economic Development of Some Selected LGAs of Yobe State 1 Ali Kole, 2 Ismail Sanusi Hayatu & 3 Alkali Mohammed Grema 1 Department of Marketing, Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic, Geidam, Yobe state, Nigeria. 2 Department of Economics, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria. 3 Department of General Studies, Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic, Geidam, Yobe state, Nigeria. Corresponding author: Ali kole ABSTRACT This study assessed the impact of quality of life, living conditions and government effectiveness on socio- economic development of some selected local government areas of Yobe state. The objective was to assess the impact of quality of life and living conditions and government effectiveness on socio-economic development of Geidam, Potiskum and Nguru Local Government Areas. The Capability Deprivation Index (CDI) was used on survey data across the selected local government areas. Other indices of deprivation applied includes Education Deprivation Index (EDI), Health Deprivation Index (HDI) and Living Condition Deprivation Index (LCDI).A systematic random sampling and questionnaire method of data collection were used for this study. The study found the existence of an asymmetry of deprivations across the LGAs in all the dimension indices. However, the intensity of the deprivation varies across the LGAs. For example, the Geidam Local Government Area was found to be extremely deprived not only at the Capability Deprivation Index (CDI) but also at all the three indices of education, health and living conditions. Therefore, the results concluded that the government was ineffective in the provision of social and basic amenities in Geidam Local Government Area. Nguru Local Government Area was found to be moderately effective in the provision of social services to the populace at the CDI benchmark and in all the three dimension indices except in health dimension index where it was reported to have the least deprivation index. Potiskum Local Government Area was the least deprived at the CDI benchmark and as well as in education deprivation index and living condition deprivation index. KEYWORDS: education deprivation index; health deprivation index; living condition deprivation index; capability deprivation index; socio-economic development. Received 10 August, 2021; Revised: 24 August, 2021; Accepted 26 August, 2021 © The author(s) 2021. Published with open access at www.questjournals.org I. INTRODUCTION The effectiveness of every government can be attributed to the extent at which the quality of life and living conditions of the people are promoted and enhanced. Although, the role of government is seen as the second-best alternative to promoting human welfare, the first-best alternative was to allow the market mechanism to freely intervene in the equitable distribution of public goods.However, from the economic perspective, there is a continuing debates on how to equitably allocate scarce resources in order to promote and improve human welfare taking into consideration, the political, economic, cultural and moral factors (Just, Hueth and Swhmitz, 2004). Several approaches were advanced by welfare economists from the utility based approach, to the resource based approach and most recently to the capability approach. The evolution of these approaches is not far-fetched from the revolutionary trend in finding a workable measurement to human welfare. Initially, it began with the marginalist approach which is associated with the work of Carl Menger, Leon Walras, and Alfred Marshall. The fundamental contribution of the marginalist approach was the diminishing marginal utility which focuses on consumption theory and it was used as the foundation for measuring welfare by economists up to the early twentieth century. The work of Lionel Robbins in 1932 saw to the emergence of the ordinalist approach which viewed utility as a subjective approach measurable only by