Poverty and Crimes in Nigeria: Indices of Governance Failure

Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: Problems and Prospect

Nigeria is rich in land, people, oil and natural gas and other resources needed to bring about her development. Inspite of these abundant resources, majority of the people are still wallowing in poverty. The problem of governance readily comes to mind as Nigeria needs not remain at the present level of under development, at this stage of her national life. Therefore, lack of good governance has...

The Determinants of Rural Poverty in Nigeria

Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit regression analysis shows that inc...

Good Governance and Poverty

Participatory Poverty and Governance Assessment

ADB Acknowledgements First and foremost, we would like to thank all of the poor households – men, women, boys and girls – from the five selected villages of Ea'Ral and Village 7C of Ea'Hleo District, Buzara and Village 2 of Dak'Rlap District, and Ale B Village of Eatam Ward in DakLak Province where the Participatory Poverty and Governance Assessment was carried out. We would like to thank them ...

Governance, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Poverty reduction is a function of economic growth, income distribution and distribution changes. Governance can impact both growth and income distribution. The dominant market-enhancing governance paradigm seeks to enhance the efficiency of markets through ‘good governance’ reforms, ostensibly to trigger or sustain growth. ‘Pro-poor’ good governance reforms purport to enhance the scale and eff...