Nigeria’s economy grew but poverty worsened, especially in the rural areas. The country needs a radical shift in its economic policy approach to reduce poverty.
Articles on rural poverty
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Nigeria’s 2025 budget is anything but pro-poor.
These myths overlook the strengths and opportunities for students who attend rural schools.
While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.
The number of people sleeping rough in rural areas has increased by 24% in the last year.
The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Contrary to popular views, it was not just uneducated and socially deviant individuals who were engaged in cannabis farming or trade.
Cities are where solutions are found – but also where perils are amplified when we fail to act.
Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
High rural poverty rates are driven largely by fuel and transport costs.
A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
Boosting income support payments beyond their current austere levels remains a crucial pillar of policy for governments genuinely committed to reducing persistent disadvantage.
Drug abuse among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria, is rising.
Interventions with good intentions aren’t always fruitful.
Perhaps this crisis will focus minds on the problems caused by neglecting rural areas.
Why poverty line data do not capture the ability of Tanzanians to build relatively good houses.
From Santiago and La Paz to Beirut and Jakarta, many of the cities now gripped by protest share a common problem: They’ve grown too much, too fast.
Although still hugely popular in rural areas, we found that there is little or no support from the government to develop the local brew industry because it’s viewed as unhygienic and hard to tax.
Non-Timber Forest Products don’t often feature in discussions about poverty reduction and alleviation.
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