indicators. The results suggest that poverty and female headship are strongly linked in rural Orissa, India. For eample, if we … draw a poverty line that corresponds to 15 per cent of the population who are poor, 12 per cent of people living in male … consumption as the welfare indicator. When 40 per cent poverty line is used, the differences are still large in economic terms and …

poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …This study examines household characteristics and personal characteristics of the household head as the determinants of …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and …

This study examines the interactions among poverty, access to modern energy sources and gender in Nigeria. Descriptive …, that poverty reduces the odds in favor of having access to modern energy sources and while female headship of household … statistics and logistic regression technique are used. The 2010 Nigeria Living Standard Survey data set obtained from the …

FHHs are poorer than MHHs in Nigeria using wealth index as a poverty measure. We analysed the household data from the last … to deploy these resources to combat poverty. The relationship between gender and poverty may indicate a targeting … Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (2008 NDHS) which is a nationally representative survey of 34,070 households in the …

This study examined gender differences in cassava production technology adoption and the impact on poverty status of … farming households in southwest, Nigeria. The data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaire through a …-Greer-Thorbecke weighted poverty index. Out of the 482 households, 387 with similar characteristics were used in the analysis. Adoption level …