referred as “households-at-risk-of-income poverty“. …

increased the poverty and out-of-school children by 9% and 7% respectively. It also killed 17 people and injured 53 people …

-dimensionally poor men. We also find that the elderly and children are the most vulnerable people in terms of multidimensional poverty in …Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the household as the unit of analysis, so … that the multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all its …

Most existing multidimensional poverty measures use the household as the unit of analysis so that the multidimensional … poverty condition of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty condition of all its members. For this reason …, household-based poverty measures ignore the intra-household inequalities and are gender-insensitive. Gender equality, however …

The Alkire and Foster (2011) methodology, as the mainstream approach to the measurement of multi-dimensional poverty in …-dimensional poverty in the literature overlook intra-household inequalities, an issue that is crucial to a better understanding of gender … inequalities, because they equate the poverty status of the household with the poverty status of all individuals in the household …

, alarming number of Nigeria’s population lives in poverty. Although income inequality is just one dimension of poverty in … Nigeria; poverty and vulnerability are highly influenced by social and other related factors. Here, patterns of poverty vary …

In this paper we estimate the incidence, the intensity, and the inequality of the multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua … intra-household inequalities, and to estimate the gender gap in multidimensional poverty and inequality, which cannot be … multidimensional poverty decreased over the analysis period, Nicaragua would demand of several decades to eradicate the issue, ceteris …