Economic and Financial Review
Publisher
Central Bank of Nigeria
Keywords
Poverty Reduction, Nigeria
Abstract
The description of Nigeria as a paradox by the World Bank (1996) bas continued to be confirmed by events and official statistics in the country. The paradox is - that the poverty level in Nigeria contradicts the country's immense wealth. Among other things, the country is enormously endowed with human, agricultural, petroleum, gas, and large untapped solid mineral resources. Particularly worrisome is that the country earned over USS300 billion from one resource - petroleum - during the last three decades of the twentieth century. But rather than record remarkable progress in national socio-economic development, Nigeria retrogressed to become one of the 25 poorest countries at the threshold of twenty-first century whereas she was among the richest 50 in the early-I 970s.
Publication Title
CBN Economic and Financial Review
Issue
4
Volume
39
Recommended Citation
Obadan, Mike I. (2001). Poverty Reduction in Nigeria: the Way Forward. CBN Economic and Financial Review. 39(4), 159-188.