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Good Governance, Poverty Alleviation Programme and Human Development in Nigeria.
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Poverty is a globally phenomenon but the intensity and weighty vary from one society and another. Despite Nigeria’s great endowment it has a wide spread of poverty. This work examines good governance, poverty alleviation and human development in Nigeria. The study, which is anchored on Good governance Theory, employs secondary source of data with documentary analysis. The research revealed that thepoverty alleviation programmes’policy objectives were not achieved because of poor governance, corruption and neglect of the target group (the poor) based on these findings, we recommended that government should exercise the attribute of good governance which is transparency and accountability also the agencies created for war against corruption should stand up to their responsibility, Again, policy implementation should carry along the target group (the poor), finally the masses should make right choice of leaders for good governance since it’s the catalyst to poverty alleviation and human development in Nigeria
