EFFECT OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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EFFECT OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Chapter one
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study
Poverty alleviation is one of the most difficult difficulties that any developing country faces, especially when the majority of the people is deemed poor. Evidence in Nigeria suggests that the number of people living in poverty has continued to rise.
For example, the number of individuals in poverty climbed from 27% in 1980 to 45 in 1985 and 67% in 1996, reaching more than 70% by 1999 (Ogulumike, 2001).
Poverty alleviation programmes in Nigeria are means by which the government has made poverty alleviation strategies ranging from Operation Feed the Nation in 1978 to the Green Revolution in 1982, the Directorate of Food, Roads
and Rural Infrastructure DEFRI, then the National Directorate for Employment NDE, poverty alleviation programme, PAP, and the National Poverty Alleviation Programme, NAPEP.
Poverty alleviation is one of the most severe difficulties that any developing country faces, as the majority of the people is deemed poor.
In Nigeria, data has showed that the number of persons in poverty went from 24 percent in 1980 to 46 percent in 1985; the ratio increased to 53 percent in 1996 and rose sharply subsequently
reading an estimate of million people or 67 percent of the population in 1999. According to these data, Nigeria now accounts for one-fourth of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Poverty was previously thought to be a rural phenomenon in Nigeria, but recent studies have found that urban poverty has grown faster than rural poverty, owing largely to massive migration from rural areas to cities, with the incidence of urban poverty nearly matching that of rural poverty (World Development Report, 2001).
Nigeria’s poor have limited access to savings and credit facilities, excellent roads, piped water, innovative technology, and output markets. They work mostly in agriculture and minor trading, using traditional inputs;
additionally, female-headed households, widows, and single moms are especially vulnerable to poverty. As a result, in recent years, the federal government has implemented macroeconomic policies.
In addition, there are global financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund.
Statement of the Problem
According to records, poverty was mostly a rural phenomena in 1980, with 28 percent of rural people living in poverty compared to 17 percent of urban individuals. “How have the world poorest fared since the early” .
In general, poverty rate estimates reveal that for the time under study, the incidence gap and severity appear to be strongly connected with household size.
In terms of individual size trends, between 1980 and 1985, all groups experienced an increase in poverty rates, with the exception of the size group “20 and above”.
Nigeria’s successive governments had partnered with a variety of international organisations. Notable examples are the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
During the pre-structural adjustment planning and management era, the government only indirectly addressed poverty reduction. The SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) era saw the government develop purposeful policies aimed at alleviating poverty.
The introduction of the structural adjustment programme (SAP) in 1986 emphasised the importance of policies and programmes to alleviate poverty and provide safety nets for the disadvantaged.
Study Objective
The study’s goal is to determine whether poverty alleviation efforts have produced desired results. To investigate problems in the state, provide viable solutions to eliminate poverty in the state, and advise the body on how to change the programme so that funds allocated to them are used to their fullest potential.
_ The many poverty alleviation programmes
_ If the poverty alleviation programme yields desirable results.
_ The issues milling against poverty alleviation efforts.
_ The best strategies to cope with the state’s poverty challenges
_ If the level of rural development in the poverty reduction programme has increased.
_ Akwa Ibom State has a high level of corruption and a low rate of poverty.
Research Questions: Does the lack of job creation result in a significant proportion of people being unable to absorb increasing demand?
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