Poverty Impact of Variations in Within-group and Between-group Inequality in Nigeria: New Estimates Using Two Household Survey Data

In an unequal and fragile economy such as Nigeria, providing for the extreme poor, marginalized, disadvantaged, less privileged and vulnerable is still seen by elites as providing for the unproductive segment. This notion seems to be one of the reasons why the elites in government have not done much to scale down poverty and inequality. The study estimates the poverty impact of variations in within-group and between-group inequality using two...