The dramatic global food price upsurges of 2007/2008 and the resurgence of 2010/2011 have kept the welfare effects of … empirically little is known in Nigeria. The key objectives of this study are to examine the welfare, i.e. food quantity … consumption, dietary diversity, and economic welfare effects of food price spikes among households in Nigeria. Using the 2012 …

context of child labour in Nigeria. The findings indicate that household poverty and some community variables are …Household poverty is dynamic and characterized in terms of spells. Through the recurrence and persistence of spells …, exposure to poverty accumulates. In Nigeria, there are evidences of increasing incidences of child labour with a link to …

farmers in Nigeria and adopting the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures the study observed that farmers that … attention by policy makers in the efforts to reduce poverty among smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria. Farmers should be …The desire to increase household income and insure against agricultural production risk has led rural households to …

poverty. However, the evidence supporting these promises has been largely inconclusive. This study examined the impact of a … rural microcredit scheme targeting women on vulnerability and empowerment of the beneficiaries and their household members …. The study was conducted in collaboration with the Amoye Microfinance Bank, Ikere Ekiti, Nigeria. Data was collected from a …

depend on their being employed. The paper uses data from Nigeria’s General Household Survey to characterize inducing factors …The paper focuses on the increasing incidence of working poor families in Nigeria. Data from the ILO and NBS suggest … that, not only is the number of working poor families in Nigeria increasing, despite governments efforts at increasing the …

, currency devaluation and restrictions on foreign exchange. Nigeria's General Household Survey Panel data from 2012 and 2015 … of stimulating domestic output of these staples. Consequently, food prices in Nigeria increased despite a global decline …

The current study sought to assess the effect of smallholder crop commercialization on household nutrition security and … poverty status. Recent government efforts have gone beyond investing in agricultural production, thereby establishing markets …, Tanzania, and Nigeria are slowly transitioning to a market economy in order to improve the livelihoods of their people. To that …