Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the assessment of poverty/deprivation using different conceptions of …/methodology/approach – The data were drawn from a household survey conducted in Nsukka, Nigeria. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were … impoverishment and deprivation. It highlights the importance of the capability approach in explaining poverty. …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the assessment of poverty/deprivation using different conceptions of …/methodology/approach – The data were drawn from a household survey conducted in Nsukka, Nigeria. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were … impoverishment and deprivation. It highlights the importance of the capability approach in explaining poverty. …

explores the service deprivation and coping strategies of rural borderland communities in South-Western Nigeria. The study … communities, specifically in Nigeria, are still characterized by neglect and underdevelopment. Based on the above fact, this study … provide. The development of Nigeria’s frontier areas is therefore of paramount importance and really pending, and must be made …

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 …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …