Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household … engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition … Nigeria's growth over the last decade has been 'jobless' and sustained largely by factor reallocations rather than …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some …

preparation if poverty is to be taken more seriously by donors. …

nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of … differing size. The paper begins with certain problems attending the measurement of poverty when the overall population size is … Parfit's quest for a satisfactory theory of wellbeing and the economist's quest for a satisfactory measure of poverty …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist approach to African development, but the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …