TACKLING POVERTY AMONG RURAL POPULACE IN NIGERIA

TACKLING POVERTY AMONG RURAL POPULACE IN NIGERIA
 
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.0   INTRODUCTION
Statistics on International Development 1998 – 2003 a publication of the British Department for information development holds that; one in five of the worlds population – two third of them rural women live in abject poverty. That is, without adequate food, clean water, sanitation, health and education. More than 24% of the population of the developing and emerging industrialized nations – live on less than US $1 a day. In Nigeria, particularly among the rural populace, poverty situation seems to be unabated with many wallowing in abject poverty. Poverty has placed over million of the rural populace in a totally danger of battle for survival, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture and the pangs of starvation.
Successive government through their poverty reduction programmes have tried to tackle the scourge of poverty but to no avail.
Therefore, the proposed research work will examine measures aimed at tackling poverty and the rural populace using Etinan Local Government Area as a case study.
1.1   STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Poverty situation in Nigeria seems, to be unabating. Amid political and economic instability, poverty in Nigeria has steadily grown worse since the first measured in 1980. Every sector of the Nigerian Society is caught by the web of poverty. The rural populace records the highest level of poverty. What is common in the sight of people living in squalor hunger and ulter destitution. The prevalence and ubiquity of poverty is competing favourably with the very air that we breath. Based on the above, the following questions are pertinent.
iii.     What are the causes of poverty among the rural populace?
1.2    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main objective of this study is to examine the roof cause of poverty among rural populace.
Subsidiary objectives:
The following hypotheses shall be tested in the course of this study.