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Public spending and rural development in Nigeria

The concerns of modern development have been on the need to boost living conditions which involves reducing poverty, unemployment, and inequality. Statistics has proved that these indices are quite high in the rural areas hence, the need to put up the needed actions to facilitate rural development. In this paper, we explored the role of public spending in fostering rural development in Nigeria from 2000 to 2020. The public spending on economic services and that of social and community services were considered, while the key rural development indicators captured were people practising open defe…