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The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies and Programs on
Poverty Problems
Godswill Egbe 1
Awogbemi...
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Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development www.
iiste.
org
ISSN 2222-1700 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2855 (Online)
Vol.
2, No.
9, 2011
1 | P a g e
www.
iiste.
org
The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies and Programs on
Poverty Problems
Godswill Egbe 1
Awogbemi Clement 1*
1
Joint Degree Programme, National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria
* E-mail of the corresponding author: awogbemiadeyeye@yahoo.
com
Abstract
This study ventilated some necessary impact of the macroeconomic policies in Nigeria on poverty in the
aggregate for the period 1980 -2002.
We identified the core determinants of poverty in the country in spite of the resources and lead way
measures put into place by the government to checkmate incidence of poverty.
Two regression equation models of poverty and GDP were specified in the study and SPSS software was
also used for the analysis of the data.
We concluded that the Nigerian policies and programs have not addressed the upward trend of poverty in
the country based on the
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