APPRAISAL OF SELECTED POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

APPRAISAL OF SELECTED POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

Poverty is one of the forces militating against the social and economic development of Nigeria. The level of poverty in Nigeria is astronomically high and politically embarrassing considering the enormous human and natural resources the country is endowed with and despite the huge resources, successive government have committed to alleviate to or eradicate poverty, it seems no success have achieved. This paper therefore examines the strategies that have been adopted by the various governments to alleviate the poverty in Nigeria. These include Operation Feed the Nation, Green Revolution, Family Economic Advancement Programme, Poverty Alleviation Programme. The study reveals among other that all the poverty alleviation programme, have not been successful due to inadequate funding, lack of proper co-ordination and commitments, poor design and evaluation of programmes etc. The paper recommends that government should ensure that programme of poverty alleviation are well designed, evaluated and co-ordinated before they are carried out, fraudulent officials should be prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others handling poverty alleviation programmes and so on.