Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the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 …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the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 …

Background: The Nigeria's National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since … size, together with decomposition using a longer period Nigeria panel household survey datasets is very scarce. Methods …: Data was drawn from three rounds of the Nigeria General Household Survey. The fixed percentage and rank …

Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its … announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been … MNCs at Nigeria's BoP. The primary data for this study were collected using Questionnaires administered to consumers in …

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 …

Undoubtedly, poverty reduction has become a front-burner issue in development and business agenda. Since its … announcement and defense by its advocates as a potent weapon against poverty, the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept has been … MNCs at Nigeria's BoP. The primary data for this study were collected using Questionnaires administered to consumers in …

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition … approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is … traditional poverty measurement to refer to income-independent equivalence scales is principally avoided. Moreover, the further …