welfare of smallholder farmers. Poverty reduction is a crucial sustainable development goal, and a clearer understanding of … the factors contributing to poverty is essential for effective, targeted policy initiatives in Nigeria. Investigating the … potential relationship between land access and household poverty-related outcomes is highly relevant for both land and social …

welfare losses - combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years - depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life …

This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … rate. Mobile broadband coverage also reduces the proportion of households below the poverty line, driven by higher food and …

compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …

cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities … have positive direct welfare effects on the small minority of smallholder households that are able to sell to it. However …

Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the …. When this is done, the rate of "resource poverty" for older people is substantially reduced, in line with results which use … indicators of standard of living as well as cash incomes ("consistent poverty"). -- Non-cash benefits ; income distribution …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …