Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: (a Case Study of MDGS 2000-2015)
Abstract
This study was on poverty reduction and sustainable development in Nigeria. Three objectives were raised which included: To identify the factors responsible for poverty in Nigeria, to assess how successful the various policies and programmed initiated to reduce poverty in Nigeria, to ascertain the level of whether Nigeria will be able to meet millennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015 and to recommend policy response and suggest how to reduce poverty in Nigeria in order to meet MDGS and ensure sustainable development.. A total of 77 responses were received and validated from the enrolled participants where all respondents were drawn from selected primary schools in Uyo. Hypothesis was tested using Chi-Square statistical tool (SPSS).
Chapter One Summary
Over the last ten years poverty has been very real in Nigeria and quality of the average Nigerian citizen has progressively nosedived. It is so endemic in Nigeria that people have started seeing it as part of their lot in life. It is at the backdrop of this that this paper is set to examine the MDGs and poverty reduction as it is geared towards bringing sustainable development in Nigeria.
This study therefore addresses some specific questions as outlined below: What factor is responsible for high level of poverty in Nigeria? What has been the impact of various poverty reduction programmes in Nigeria? Will Nigeria really reduce poverty by 2015 going by the current situation in the country?
Objectives of the Study
The general objective of the study is to analyze and evaluate the rate of poverty in Nigeria. Against this backdrop, the following specific objectives will be address in the study:
- To identify the factors responsible for poverty in Nigeria
- To assess how successful the various policies and programmed initiated to reduce poverty in Nigeria.
- To ascertain the level of whether Nigeria will be able to meet millennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015.
- To recommend policy response and suggest how to reduce poverty in Nigeria in order to meet MDGS and ensure sustainable development.
Chapter Two Summary
Poverty is also associated with poor health low level of education, low level of calories in one‟s diet, lack of shelter, low level of employment. Furthermore, poverty refers to the inability of an individual or family to secure basic needs even in the midst of social surrounding of general prosperity or lack of some general attribute that would allow an individual to maintain himself. And people that are associated with such behaviors like inability to manage money either by laziness, drunkenness and producing too many can make a nation or an individual to be poor.
The concept of poverty like every other concepts in the social sciences lack a precise definition that can be said to be as patial and that is temporal. If it perhaps this line of thought that informed Aboyade (1975:4) to state that poverty is probably not a subject to be defined or measured to be appreciated, it may have to do with suffering despite this remarks, the search for commonly accepted characteristic of poverty for slicken people continue to gain currency and as several definition of poverty have been pasted by scholars.
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