ABSTRACT The proliferation of poverty and global inequality between and within the countries has resulted in an emerging consensus among the actors in the field of international development on the importance of social policies in the process of development. Different policies and structural programmes has, over the years, been instituted as mechanisms for tackling poverty and empowering individuals and one of such recent social policy measures employed by the MDGs is the Conditional Cash ...
Education is a tool for personal and societal development and its impacts are felt in all sectors of any society. The gains of education for the individual, is that it inculcates the right knowledge and skills on the individual which give him/her the leverage to seek for high paying jobs that will add value to his/her socioeconomic status. Also, it makes the individual to be a productive citizen. This makes education to be a mechanism for empowerment in order to break the burden of poverty. P...
Abstract Nigeria: Corruption has been identified as one of the most aggrieving concepts hampering human and economic progress in developing countries; a finding particularly relevant to the Nigerian case. Corruption exacerbates economic growth, reduces economic efficiency and development despite the availability of enormous human and natural resources in the country of investigation. The cardinal thrust of the present paper is to inquire about corruption in the Nigerian context under apprecia...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the Role of Cooperatives in Poverty Alleviation. The study was based in the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Kaduna Multipurpose Cooperative Society. The research review the literatures of related study and were duly acknowledge. Data were collected through constructed questionnaire and interview methods comprising members of the study area. Using systematic sampling techniques. The perceptible equations and tabular illustrations were used to present dat...
ABSTRACT The study is to appraise the role of government in poverty alleviation in Nigeria with a special reference to National Poverty Eradication Programme NAPEP. The research introduces the background of the study in chapter one and brief historical background. Some of the objectives of this study is to identify the impact of NAPEP in the eradicating poverty in Nigeria, strategies for poverty reduction, to also identify the various government programmes on poverty alleviations and to asc...
ABSTRACT Due to the economic situation of the country the writer decided to carryout a comprehensive study to find out those solutions to the obstacles that disrupt the economic situation. The study also reveals the role of Agro-based industries to poverty alleviation programme, family support programme and family economic advancement programme. Its therefore hoped that recommendation offered in this project will be of great relevant to the individual, Agro-based industries and the society...
ABSTRACT Public policy is the pronouncements of government intentions by people in positions of public trust, demanding government actions or inaction and having impact either negative or positive, on the majority members of the society. Moreso, poverty is a negative term denoting absence or lack of material wealth. Poverty alleviation in the other hand has been one of the major economic objectives of various administrations in Nigeria. During to these landlable objective, various programmes...
ABSTRACT This research work on co-operative and poverty in Enugu state intends to examine the level of poverty in Enugu state and to find out the level of co-operative movement, involvement in bringing permanent solution. Co-operative is well organized will no doubt help to alleviate poverty in any state. The researcher data which were processed analyzed and presented. TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE APPROVAL PAGE DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ON...
ABSTRACT This project work was on the role of the accountant in poverty alleviation programme of the federal government with particular note on Enugu North local government area. The objectives of the study among others were: To determine the role of the Accountant in the poverty alleviation programme of Enugu North local government area. To determine whether the role of the accountant is of relevant in the planning of programmes and policies of the poverty alleviation programme in Enugu Nort...
ABSTRACT This research work examines the impact of the MDGs on Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria followingsome progress on the achievement of the MDGs, given the modest recovery of theNigerian economy since the 1990s and the various efforts of all stakeholders.Although, poverty was till pervasive, and child mortality and maternal healthstill precarious, yet literacy level were rising, gender equality andempowerment of women are improving. HIV/AIDs pandemic, malaria and othercommunicable disea...
ABSTRACTThis study was aimed at investigating poverty alleviation strategies through the use of adult education programmes in Ughelli North L.G.A. of Delta State. In this regard, the study sought to find out if adult education poverty alleviation programmes have impacted positively on the community dwellers. The population of the study is the youths and adults participating in adult education poverty alleviation programmes. Findings of the study revealed that tailoring, hair dressing, barbing...
Abstract Poverty connotes deprivations or denials of certain needs, services and denials of all attributes of human development. Poverty crashed the human spirit, three billion people, half the world’s population lives in less human needs. Poverty traps future generation in a vicious cycle with hope or opportunity, in an increasingly globalize world on one is immune to these. The objective of this research work is to examine how microfinance bank will help in poverty alleviation in Nigeria....
A robust economic growth cannot be achieved without putting in place well focused programme to reduce poverty through empowering the people by increasing their access to factors of production.
ABSTRACT The study assessed the role of female entrepreneurs in poverty alleviation in rural communities of Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. It specifically analysed the socioeconomic characteristics of women entrepreneurship and assessed the contribution of female-owned businesses to poverty alleviation in the study area. The main reason for this study was due to the fact that most studies on the relationship between businesses development and poverty alleviation...
Abstract This paper analyses Nigeria’s poverty alleviation strategies since 1960. There is an indication that despite attempts at curbing poverty through poverty alleviation strategies, Nigeria’s poverty level continues to increase in a worrisome dimension with poverty remaining a hydra-headed monster. The failure of these strategies to reduce Nigeria’s poverty burden has been attributed to several factors including corruption, the multiplicity of programmes which lead to overlapping fu...