POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA AND THE ATTAINMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA AND THE ATTAINMENT OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
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2017-06
Authors
Ahmed, Idris Jamo
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KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMISTRATION
Abstract
Poverty is among the most challenging threat to human development. Since time
immemorial people have used different strategies to eradicate it in their midst. In fact
poverty has become one of the serious issues that attracted global concern. It is among
this reason that the congress of the United Nation General Assembly in 2000
unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration which was letter transformed into
eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).However, poverty eradication is one of
the eight Goals of MDGs. Nigeria which is a member of the United Nation has already
pronounced its efforts to achieve MDGs. The paper assesses country’s effort in its task
to eradicate poverty. To obtain our data, secondary sources were utilized. The study
revealed that, Nigeria will hardly meet its MDGs particularly poverty eradication,
partly due to high rate of corruption, mismanagement, underdevelopment of the real
sector of the economy and finally lack of adherent to rule of law. The study
recommended that, unless the above mentioned vices were minimized, poverty
eradication in the country would achieve meaningful results.
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KOGI STATE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMISTRATION.
A PUBLICATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION,
VOL. 3(1). JUNE, PP.239-246.