The article examines the nexus between the quality of institutions and the poverty in Nigeria over the period 1984-2017, using Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares, Canonical Cointegrating Regression and Vector Error Correction Mechanism. The analysis based on three institutional measures...

This study provides an adequate account of the effect of infrastructure on poverty reduction in Nigeria over the period 1996-2019. The basis of evidence is anchored on the adoption of Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds testing approach to cointegration and Granger causality test based on...

Background: The pitfall of top-down approach to development is identified as a major cause of aid inefficiency. The approach is fraught with corruption and unethical practices that have bedeviled aid administration. Meanwhile, the impact of remittances has been widely acknowledged in the...