THE DETERMINANTS AND MEASUREMENTS OF POVERTY IN NIGERIAN ECONOMY
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2018-08-08
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Federal University Gusau Zamfara State
Abstract
Governments concern for the fate of the poor in developing countries has heightened in recent
years but the economies of these countries were constrained with a rather hostile external and
internal economic and environmental hardship. Some of these entanglement encountered are
a recurring external debt-servicing burdens, disequilibrium in terms of trade, high and widespread unemployment, high rate of int1ation, capital flight, low capacity utilization and high population growth.