Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107982 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/149
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this limitation by making use of recently developed survey-to-survey imputation techniques. To explore polarization, our study uses instead the relative distribution methodology. Findings confirm the sharp increase of polarization. Compared to 2003 consumption distribution is more concentrated in upper and lower defiles, while the middle defiles are progressively emptying out.
Subjects: 
Nigeria
consumption expenditure
inequality
polarization
relative distribution
JEL: 
C14
D30
D63
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-870-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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