management in Nigeria. Sound macroeconomic policies and management contribute in many ways to high quality growth that has … positive correlation with poverty reduction. Increased and more efficient public spending in the areas of public education …, healthcare, and employment remain the catalysts for poverty reduction and sustainable development. It is believed that efficient …

growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation …

-war levels; reducing poverty from 69 to 54 percent; growing the economy by 8 percent annually between 1996 and 2003; expanding … poor, infrastructure is inadequate, there are serious unmet education and health needs, and poverty rates remain high. This … Memorandum examines the growth-poverty linkage, using a wide variety of data sources, including the recently completed national …