Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria overtime. The disconnect between these findings and … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …

Nigeria. The study uses data from 1991 to 2018 and adopts the Auto-regressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) cointegration approach … also find that the large income disparity in Nigeria drives the poor into informal economic activity, primarily for … and a cause of rising income disparity in Nigeria, leading to an expansion of the shadow economy. These findings indicate …

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999, 2003, and 2008 for national, regional, and zonal … analysis, and the Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey of 2008/09 as well as the Nigeria Living Standard Survey of 2003 …

Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for … Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in …

) to assess the redistributive effects of direct healthcare financing in Nigeria. This new framework makes it possible not … to utilize healthcare is always linked to the decision to pay for healthcare, as is the case in Nigeria, out …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first …

communities. Since the 1990s. This chapter discusses the different dimensions of poverty and inequality in Nigeria. The global and … domestic approaches adopted in Nigeria to tackle the problem of poverty and inequality are also discussed in this chapter. The … population in Nigeria. Their activities especially at the household level has a way of affecting development. The last section …