Government Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria
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2005
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Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Ilorin
Abstract
Nigeria's poverty profile is daunting, Normally, poverty, level is expected to decrease in the presence of well-articulated government expenditure. Ironically, the Nigerian situation defies this simple logic. This study therefore evaluates the relationship between poverty reduction and government expenditure with the aid of a formulated model, which was also employed to determined and predict the annual average amount of fund needed to be spent by government to cause poverty to reduce drastically...
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Expenditure, government, development, poverty