nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. this study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in south western, nigeria. a random multistage sampling was employed for the study. ekiti and osun states were randomly selected from the six states in south-western nigeria. this was followed by random selection of two l...

Twenty-five years ago the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (1984). The present study provides a retrospective view of the FGT paper and the subsequent literature, as well as a brief discussion of future directions. We begin by describing the context and origins of our paper, and identify three categories of contributions: to measurement, ...

Income-differentiated mortality, by reducing the share of poor persons in the population, leads to what can be called the "Mortality Paradox": the worse the survival conditions of the poor are, the lower the measured poverty is. We show that the extent to which FGT measures (Foster Greer Thorbecke 1984) underestimate old-age poverty under incomedifferentiated mortality depends on whether the pr...

The large number of near-poor relative to poor elderly persons in the United States may be recharacterized as a high-prevalence, low-intensity type of poverty. The present study investigates how this characterization is affected by accounting for assets and non-cash transfers in addition to cash income in resources available for current-year consumption. The Foster, Greer, Thorbecke (FGT) pover...

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and a method of aggregation. Historically, the methods of aggregation were quite simple. The headcount in...

The aim of this article is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya using a dynamic, microsimulation computable general equilibrium model. The article improves on the common practice in the literature by using the more comprehensive Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index to measure poverty instead of headcount ratios only. Simulations result...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the claim that tourism development can be the engine for poverty reduction in Kenya using a dynamic, micro-simulation computable general equilibrium model. The paper improves on the common practice in the literature by using the more comprehensive Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) index to measure poverty instead of headcount ratios only. Simulations results f...

Poverty is a central issue in development programs Indonesia. Most people still depend on agriculture for their livelihoods with relatively low productivity and business income, so poverty are common rural areas. of the Wonogiri residents work agriculture, where one superior products cassava, largest producer Central Java. reduction critical factor reducing This study examined status determinan...

This study incorporates household energy needs into Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) based poverty measures to examine in South Africa. Our household-specific line is founded on the application of semiparametric estimation expenditure shares that are used determine a equivalence scale and, thus, specific required consumption level or line. We find headcount extensive, exceeding 50%, as gap and seve...