Millennium Development Goals (Mdgs) And Poverty Reduction In Anambra State, Nigeria, 2006-2015.

Abstract

This study has critically examined the Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction

in Anambra State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined how lack of good governance in

the management of Millennium Development Goals funds undermined poverty reduction in

Anambra State, and how the state implementation of neo-liberal economic policies impeded

the programme of poverty reduction in the State. Literature reviewed are deficient in

explaining the link between lack of good governance in the management of resources relating

to MDGs which undermined poverty alleviation in Nigeria and also did not explain how the

implementation of neoliberal economic policies impeded the enormous programmes put in

place by the governments for poverty alleviation in Nigeria. Hence, this was the problematique

of the study. Theory of Post-colonial state was adopted in arguing that the Millennium

Development Goals was a cover for the accumulation of capital by the West and the comprador

bourgeoisie, and as such did not conduce to poverty reduction in Nigeria. The study relied

mainly on secondary data. Using qualitative descriptive methods of data analysis, the study

discovered inter alia: (i) that lack of good governance in the management of MDGs funds

undermined poverty reduction in Anambra State, and (ii) that the state implementation of neoliberal

economic policies impeded the programme of poverty reduction in the State. Arising

from the above findings, the study recommended among other things that Anambra state

government should adopt policies that favour and encourage transparency, accountability and rule of law in the management of fund that accrues to the state.