Purpose The majority of poor women in Africa live in rural areas, and investigating their
empowerment status and factors influencing their empowerment is therefore a tool for …

The high rate of poverty in Nigeria is alarming with over 105 million people living in poverty.
Despite the significant proportion of the population living in poverty in the country and the …

This paper analyzed multidimensional energy poverty in the south-south geopolitical zone of
Nigeria using the National Bureau of Statistic 2009-10 National Living Standard Survey …

Purpose Poverty is endemic in rural Nigeria and gender disparity in access to productive
resources is a major cause of poverty in the area. Poverty status of rural households along …

Diversification decisions seem to be driven to a large extent by desperation rather than new
opportunities, in particular with regard to migration. The share of income from non …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to use the capability approach to analyse the
wellbeing of rural households in Nigeria and determine the factors that influence the …

This paper examined the incidence, depth and severity of poverty, and poverty correlates in
Bayelsa state using the FGT decomposable class of poverty measures and a logit …

Undoubtedly, gender inequality is the bane of women's underachievement in attaining
financial independence in most African countries due to the patriarchal cultural norms that …

This paper analyzed income poverty in the south-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria using
the FGT model and a logit regression on the 2009-10 National Living Standard Survey data …

Despite a large scale government investment to improve the livelihoods of smallholder
farmers, rural poverty remains widespread in Nigeria. However, technical efficiency effects …