The objective of measuring poverty is usually to make comparisons over time or between two more groups. Common statistical inference methods are used determine whether an apparent difference in measured statistically significant. Studies relative have long recognized that when the line calculated from sample survey data, both variance and welfare metric contribute estimate. In contrast, studies...

The study analysed rural farming households’ poverty status and alleviating strategies in Benue State, Nigeria. specific objectives of the were to: describes household heads’ socio-economic characteristics; determine respondents its determinants; identify respondents. Data for was collected from 420 selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. descriptive statistics, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke ...

This study examined the effects of social capital on food security status microcredit households in Ekiti-state, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used selecting sample for study. The data were collected by using a well-structured questionnaire from three hundred and eighty-six Ekiti-state. analysed descriptive, Foster, Greer Thorbecke measure probit regression model. result showed th...

This paper provides a valuable guide in defining interventions relevant for addressing various actors and determining the expected poverty reducing effects that such can produce beef cattle value chain. The objective of this was to provide empirical information on relationship between income generated from chain status Nigeria. study conducted Kaduna, Kano Katsina states,twelve villages were pu...

Poverty is the most serious threat to natural resources and the environment and most of the poor are rural-based who engage in various agricultural activities. Land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately intensify agriculture which compels the poor to either overuse or misuse this natural resource base to meet basic needs. This study presents empirical relatio...

The Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke poverty index is modified to create a poverty outreach measure that incorporates both depth of outreach and scale. In an application to microfinance institutions, the use of this type of poverty outreach measure rejects the common notion that there is a necessary trade−off between client outreach and institutional sustainability. Banks and credit unions are foun...

INTRODUCTION Mexico faces important problems concerning income and health inequity. Mexico's national public agenda prioritizes remedying current inequities between its indigenous and non-indigenous population groups. This study explores the changes in social inequalities among Mexico's indigenous and non-indigenous populations for the time period 2000 to 2010 using routinely collected poverty,...

Many risk, inequality, poverty and concentration measures are extremely sensitive to outliers, dependence, heterogeneity and heavy tails. In this paper we focus on robust measurement of risk, inequality, poverty and concentration under heterogeneity, dependence and heavy-tailedness of largely unknown form using the recent results on t−statistic based heterogeneity and correlation robust inferen...