No Condition is Permanent: Middle Class in Nigeria in the Last Decade.
The economic debate on the existence and definition of the middle class has become particularly lively in many developing countries. Building on a recently developed framework called the Vulnerability Approach to Middle Class (VAMC) to define the middle class, this paper tries to estimate the size o...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 294 - 311 |
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Feb2019
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