poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …

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 …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …

gains in some indicators, multidimensional child poverty in Mozambique still substantially exceeds that in neighbouring … and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …

the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …

health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … inferring income, nutrition, and mortality using data on heights from developing countries over the last 50 years for female …, each centimeter gain in height is associated with a 6% increase in income per capita, a reduction in infant mortality of 7 …

to basic needs). These latter are picked up by various indices of deprivation, satisfaction and inequality. We find some …