NigeriaPovertyPerspectiveAlleviationThe paper discusses the concept of poverty and elucidates the various methods of measurement used in evaluating poverty. Causes of poverty in Nigeria were also brought into perspective. It was concluded that inadequate economic growth is the main cause of poverty in ...
Using an improved food poverty line, this paper provides the first dynamic food poverty analysis for Nigeria, accounting for urban‐rural income and price differentials. Estimates from the General Household Survey (GHS) longitudinal data reveal that about half of the population was food‐poor in ...
Measurement and Sources of Income Inequality Among Rural and Urban Households in Nigeria Income inequality and poverty are closely related. This study decomposed income inequality in Nigeria using the Gini-decomposition, regression-based and Sh... AS Oyekale,AI Adeoti,TO Oyekale - 《Working Papers ...
Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis in Abia State, Nigeria Poverty measurement has recently shifted from the income/expenditure unidimensional approach to multidimensional all inclusive poverty indicators. This stu... AS Oyekale,FY Okunmadewa - 《Research Journal of Applied Sciences》...
Happiness is a basic human emotional state associated with positive life and work-related outcomes. Despite being currently considered a central topic in public health research and practice, there is a paucity of valid and reliable brief measures of happiness that have been adapted in Italian. Thus...
This systematic country diagnostic is structured in two main parts, one backward looking and the other forward looking. The backward-looking analysis aims to draw lessons on the determinants of poverty and sustainable and inclusive growt... TW Bank 被引量: 2发表: 2015年 Measuring and Determinants...
Impact of COVID 19 on Own Account Workers in Sri Lanka. PIERS -08 Peradeniya International Economics Research conference Entrepreneurs (hereafter defined as own account workers) are vital to the economy especially in the case of poverty alleviation and reducing inequalities i... DN Ranawaka,IS Then...
Therefore, this paper examined the determinants of production efficiency among smallholder sweet potato farmers in Imo State of Nigeria. Farm-specific allocative, technical and economic efficiencies and their determinants were estimated within the framework of stochastic frontier analysis of primary data ...
Poverty is perpetually reinvented with each shift in development policy around the issue of free trade and belies, within its rhetoric, exactly the same way as for colonial discourse, the anxious and ambivalent possibility that the polic... Biccum,R April - 《Third World Quarterly》 被引量: ...
(1997), Measurement issues in poverty. In Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria, Selected Papers for the 1997 Annual Conference of the Nigerian Economics Society (pp. 141-156).Englama, D and Bamidele, A (1997). Measurement Issues in Poverty. Selected Papers from the Nigerian Economic Society's ...