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Centre for Human Rights Research and Development

CHRRD RESEARCH REVIEW No. 2

*Nigerian Social and Economic Inequality In Its Global Context


 

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Mashood Erubami and Ian R. Young

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 2003

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OUTLINE

Overview... 4

Highlights.. 5

Setting the Scene. 6

Vocabulary Frequently Employed in Human Development Inequality Discourse. 7

Why Are Inequalities Important Concerns?. 7

Empirical Relationships Between Inequality, Corruption and Homicide Rates. 8

Measurements: Inequalities in Composite Standards of Living.. 8

Trends In UNDP Human Development, 1975-2001: Africa Falling Behind. 8

Low, Medium and High Human Development Proportions Over 25 Years. 9

Measurements: Inequalities in Material Wealth.. 10

Continental Variations in Within-Country Income Inequality, 1990s. 10

Income Inequality Trends Across World Regions, 0 C.E. - 1998. 11

Within-Country Inequalities: The African Region.. 13

Income Shares in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Nigeria in the 1990s. 13

World Bank: (D)Evolving Living Standards in Eight African Countries Over the 1990s. 14

Domestic Nigerian Inequalities.. 14

Components of the Human Development Index for 19 Nigerian States (1992). 14

Growing Inequality Within Nigeria’s Poor, 1986-1995: IMF.. 15

Nigeria. Federal Office of Statistics.  Income Poverty Trends 1980-1996. 16

Nigeria. Federal Office of Statistics.  Regional Poverty Rates for 1996. 17

Nigeria’s Progress Towards the International Development Goals: World Bank. 17

Nigeria Within the World Income Distribution 1970-2000: Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 18

Global Inequalities in Life Expectancy, 1820 - 2050. 23

Life Expectancy Trends, North versus South, 1820-2050. 24

Regional Life Expectancies, 1820-2050. 25

Global Changes in Inequality in Income, Lifetime Income and Life Expectancy (Theil index), 1820-2000  25