growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent …

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 …-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999, 2003, and 2008 for national, regional, and zonal …

The increase in the geographical mobility of labour as a result of poverty, unemployment and unstable economic … conditions, among other factors, especially among professionals, has been associated with a brain drain in Nigeria. Despite the … high level of migration and subsequent remittances from migrants, a large proportion of Nigerians still live in poverty …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …