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Nigeria was declared the poverty headquarters of the world, with about 44.2 percent and
47.7 percent of her population living on less than US $1.90 per day in 2018 and 2019 …

Nigeria is positioned 160 th out of 205 countries in the 2020 sustainable development index,
having scored 49.28. The nation ranked 159 th out of 185 countries surveyed in 2019 …

Nigeria has one of the greatest development potentials in Africa given the vastness of her
resources and above all her rich human resource endowment. But regardless of these …

Poverty reduction has received increased focus in development debate in the past two
decades. Progress on poverty reduction has become a major measure of success of …

There has been a growing incidence of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa over the last two
decades. Poverty is a multidimensional social phenomenon that can be analytically divided …

There is no shortage of written materials about the nature and prevalence of poverty in
Nigeria, but they are not all easily accessible by civil-society groups. This report was …

This paper examines the issue of poverty in Nigeria, its causes, previous attempts made by
past and present administrations aimed at taming the monster coupled with the way forward …