%0 Journal Article
%T Local Government and Poverty Eradication in Rural Nigeria
%A Jonathan A. Aderonmu
%J Canadian Social Science
%D 2010
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%X Poverty is a universal phenomenon that cut across both developed and underdeveloped countries. In Nigeria poverty is deep, widespread and multidimensional, and Nigerians are all victims of this condition in one way or the other even though the degree differs. However, available statistics reveals that poverty is more pronounced among the rural dwellers that form 70% of the country¡¯s population. Efforts by successive government to eradicate poverty especially in the rural areas since independence have not yielded any desirable result in spite of huge amount of resources committed to it. This article focuses on the causes of rural poverty as well as strategies adopted to eradicate it made by successive regimes in Nigeria. It also analysis some of the main weaknesses of the past attempt aimed at eradicating poverty and highlights the potential role that local government can play in poverty eradication efforts. Keywords: Poverty; Causes of Poverty; Local Government; Rural Areas and Poverty Alleviation Programmes R¨¦sum¨¦: La pauvret¨¦ est un ph¨¦nom¨¨ne universel dans les pays d¨¦velopp¨¦s et sous-d¨¦velopp¨¦s. Au Nigeria, la pauvret¨¦ est profonde, g¨¦n¨¦ralis¨¦e et multidimensionnelle, et les Nig¨¦rians sont touts les victimes de cette condition dans un sens ou dans l'autre, m¨ºme si le degr¨¦ diff¨¨re. Cependant, les statistiques disponibles r¨¦v¨¨lent que la pauvret¨¦ est plus prononc¨¦e chez les habitants des zones rurales qui constituent 70% de la population du pays. Les efforts d¨¦ploy¨¦s par les gouvernements successifs pour ¨¦radiquer la pauvret¨¦, en particulier dans les zones rurales depuis l'ind¨¦pendance, n'ont pas donn¨¦ de r¨¦sultat souhaitable, en d¨¦pit des ¨¦normes ressources engag¨¦es. Cet article se concentre sur les causes de la pauvret¨¦ rurale ainsi que les strat¨¦gies adopt¨¦es par les r¨¦gimes successifs au Nigeria pour l'¨¦radiquer. Il analyse ¨¦galement certaines des faiblesses principales de la derni¨¨re tentative visant ¨¤ ¨¦radiquer la pauvret¨¦ et met en ¨¦vidence le r le potentiel que les gouvernements locaux peuvent jouer dans les efforts d'¨¦radication de la pauvret¨¦. Mots-cl¨¦s: pauvret¨¦; causes de la pauvret¨¦; gouvernements locaux; zones rurales et programmes de lutte contre la pauvret¨¦
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