Community-based health insurance schemes attempt to bridge the gap between increasing health needs and scarce resources in poor communities as well as providing protection for the most vulnerable groups through cross-subsidization. However, these schemes are often initiated without strong...

This paper explores factors that predict deprivation and are associated with multiple counts of deprivation in Nsukka, Nigeria. Different conceptions of poverty were constructed: the traditional money-metric measure and differing multidimensional constructs of poverty. Data from a survey of...

Health care financing in Nigeria is dominated by private out-of-pocket payment that is not affordable to the poor. This has greatly reduced access to quality health care for the predominantly rural poor. Insurance schemes as options for increasing access to health care services have not received...

This study analyses the determinants of both the decision to remit money and the total remittances by Nigerian migrants. The study distinguishes itself from other existing migration studies in Nigeria by focusing on the microeconomic determinants of remittances from both the sending and...

This study used the Ricardian approach that captures farmer adaptations to varying environmental factors to analyze the impact of climate change (CC) on plantation agriculture in Nigeria. By collecting data from 280 farm households in seven different cocoa producing areas in Nigeria (Cross...

In South Africa, there has been a renewed interest in addressing the problem of rising alcohol abuse, but the extent to which this will translate into meaningful policies is unclear. The use of an excise tax is increasingly being recognized by economists as a way to get around some of the...

This paper explores factors that predict deprivation and are associated with multiple counts of deprivation in Nsukka, Nigeria. Different conceptions of poverty were constructed: the traditional money-metric measure and differing multidimensional constructs of poverty. Data from a survey of...

The extent of progressivity inherent in a country's health care financing system has great potentials for redistribution of resources. A regressive health care financing system would imply that the poor are paying proportionately more than the rich to sustain the health care system in the...

Healthcare financing, like fiscal policies, have explicit distributional implications. It is often important for policy purposes to make explicit such distributional consequences. A number of decomposition frameworks have been developed in literature for analyzing redistributional impact of...