Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999, 2003, and 2008 for national, regional, and zonal …