Several policies and programmes have been put in place to address the issue of poverty
both in developing and developed countries of which Nigeria is not exempted. This study
using data from World Development Indicators (WDI) for the period of 1992–2016 examined
the key principles influencing poverty rate in Nigeria and their implications for policy
interventions. The result of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model using several
equations showed that unemployment increases poverty by approximately 1.4, 1.5 and 3.3 …