POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: THE NEED FOR COLLABORATION
Abstract
The incidence of poverty in Nigeria has always been high despite the effort of government to put smiles on the faces of average Nigerians living in rural community. The paper aims at examining poverty alleviation programmer and rural development in Nigeria. The paper adopts secondary method and data will be sourced from prints and online publications. The paper discusses review of literature and theoretical framework of poverty as well as the causes of poverty in Nigeria. It also deals with the several poverty alleviation programmes in Nigeria that have been initiated by both government and Non-governmental organizations and its strategic failure. The paper reveals that government as well as non-governmental agencies have put in place many programmers to combat and alleviate poverty but not successful. Therefore, the paper recommends that community self-help should be taken as a measure to complement the government effort in alleviating poverty in Nigeria.
Keywords
Poverty, Community, Rural Development, Government, Nigeria