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Poverty-reduction in Nigeria: Reflections on professionally driven and community-driven poverty reduction strategies/programmes in Nigeria

International Journal of Development and Management Review

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Title Poverty-reduction in Nigeria: Reflections on professionally driven and community-driven poverty reduction strategies/programmes in Nigeria
 
Creator Ogbuozobe, JE
 
Subject Poverty, Professionally-driven, Community-driven, Participation, “Top-down”, “Bottom-up”, Renewal Strategy, Development
 
Description Since the advent of colonial administration in Nigeria, a number of Development Plans have been formulated and implemented. The essence of a Development Plan is to generate development in the various components of the country concerned with the overall aim of improving the standard of living of the people generally and the poor in particular. In Nigeria, a number of
development theories guided the preparation of the Plans until about the mid-1980s. A significant feature of all the four Post-independence Development Plans prepared and implemented in the country is the fact that the Plans were
prepared wholly by professionals and technocrats in government. There was no involvement of the supposed beneficiaries of the development projects contained in the Plans. There was thus general apathy toward the Plans, hence
the Plans could not achieve the objectives for which they were prepared in the first place. Poverty conditions worsened in the country especially between the country’s urban and rural areas. From about mid-1980, strategies in planning changed for the better with the active participation of the rural people in
matters that concerned their well-being. This was amply demonstrated in the World Bank assisted Community-Based Poverty Reduction Programme (CPRP) in Nigeria. This programme has, to date, recorded a huge success.
 
Publisher Directorate of General Studies, FUT, Owerri
 
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Date 2011-06-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijdmr/article/view/66999
10.4314/ijdmr.v6i1.66999
 
Source International Journal of Development and Management Review; Vol 6, No 1 (2011)
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ijdmr/article/view/66999/55116
 
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