need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the …This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate …

need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the … redistributing income is also required to ensure pro-poorness of growth in Nigeria. -- economic growth ; pro-poor growth ; poverty …This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and …

need for smaller family size has to be an integral part of policy aimed at poverty reduction in Nigeria. The support of the …This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and … 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate …

This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential … and welfare. The headcount measure of poverty in Nigeria declined from 43 percent to 34 percent between 1985 and 1992 … infrastructure need to be central strategies in the fight against poverty in Nigeria …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first … is sensitive to indicator definitions, the overall results are robust and lend support to the view that poverty reduction …

the incidence of poverty and employment intensity of growth in Nigeria. The study found among other things that poverty … has risen since the resumption of growth in Nigeria. Although there seems to be some decline in relative poverty in recent …The relationship among economic growth, employment and poverty reduction is an organic one such that the evolution of …

This study empirically examined the relationship between poverty, income inequality and economic growth in Nigeria. The … that poverty and income inequality has an insignificant effect on economic growth in Nigeria. Based on the findings, it can … be concluded that poverty and income inequality has not significant relationship with economic growth in Nigeria. Thus …

This study analysed the issues involved in inclusive growth as well as the challenges faced by Nigeria. Issues like … institutions were identified. With regards to Nigeria, it was observed that the country is still far away from realistically being … able to achieve inclusive growth as dependency ratio, poverty and depletion of natural capital is very high. Also, health …

index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of … growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP … study found that for Nigeria’s sub-nationals, the null hypothesis of non-inclusive growth was rejected for the different …

. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …