SIR: In the past few years, the Nigerian government introduced scheme after scheme parroting the same mantra of “lifting millions out of poverty”. One of this is the N5000 a month stipend to some of ...

This is not the first time we have heard of such a bold yet impractical goal statement. The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, ...

Popular cleric, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, has given reasons why various poverty alleviation programmes of government at all levels fail in Nigeria. Ayodele, who is the Founder of INRI ...

Given their expanding responsibilities—especially with the introduction of Android-based applications and the growing need ...

Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. This paper provides an overview of the design of means-tested Guaranteed Minimum Income schemes, which constitute an important ...

Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki this afternoon chaired the sixth-term Commission on Poverty's fifth meeting, during which members were briefed by a university research team on the impacts of various ...