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Human capital development and poverty reduction in Nigeria

This study was informed by the rising poverty level in nigeria. Despite nigeria’s plentiful agricultural resources and oil wealth, poverty is widespread in the country and has increased since the late 1990s, with some 70 per cent of nigerians living on less than us$1.25 a day. Arguably, it has been asserted that government investment in education, agriculture, skill acquisition and small and medium enterprises measured through financial intermediation can help in the reduction of poverty as observed in other developed economies of the world. It is against this backdrop that this study tries to…