Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: Which way Nigeria? (2008)
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ADONIS & ABBEY PUBLISHERS LTD., P. 0. BOX 43418, LONDON, SE 11 4XZ, UNITED KINGDOM .
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Poverty is an enemy of man, it humiliates and dehumanises its victim. The paper
examines poverty alleviation pol icies and programmes of government and came
to the conclusion that these policies fa iled to al leviate, instead elevated poverty
in the country. The reasons for these include corruption in government and
neglect of the target group - the poor, who were never considered during the
formulation of these po licies. The paper suggests that government should
intensify the war against corruption and carry along the target group - the poor,
in formulation of its programmes by making ' pro-poor' policies its focus as a
basis for poverty alleviation.
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JA Political science (General)