Government Expenditure and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria's poverty profile is daunting, Normally, poverty, level is expected to decrease in the presence of well-articulated government expenditure. Ironically, the Nigerian situation defies this simple logic. This study therefore evaluates the relationship between poverty reduction and government expenditure with the aid of a formulated model, which was also employed to determined and predict the annual average amount of fund needed to be spent by government to cause poverty to reduce drastically...