.8 percent of Nigeria’s population was living in extreme poverty in 2016. Poverty has been rising in rural areas and in the … challenge in Nigeria revolves around economic growth, which has had a limited impact on reducing poverty and building shared …Frequently referred to as the Giant of Africa, Nigeria is growing slower than its population and large numbers of …

That raising income levels alleviates poverty, and that growth can be more or less effective in doing so, is well known … - that poverty may, in fact, be part of the reason for a country`s poor growth performance. This report is about the … poverty reduction and high growth reinforce each other. …