Abstract
Development is a process of attaining sustainable growth and the system's ability to cope with periodic changes in the realization of political, economic and social development through policies and programs. Successful governments in Nigeria have introduced several programs to alleviate poverty and attain national development. This paper is positioned on the qualitative method of social science research using secondary sources of data to examine the impact of the Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) on poverty reduction and national development. The study reveals that Low GDP growth, economic recession, and low investment are direct causes in the shrinking demand for job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and above all a mirror image of the state of an economy. It, therefore, explains that YEP has not alleviated poverty among the target beneficiaries and has insignificantly contributed to national development. The paper attributed poor performance of YEP to the high rate of unemployment in the country and therefore recommends for empowering the youth by exposing them into different vocational skills may help them to engage into sustainable-income and self-empowerment for national development which will lead to sustained poverty alleviation.
Highlights
Poverty has been one of the most serious problems facing humanity for many generations as it poses a lot of challenges to the social, political and economic development of all countries around the world
Rural Infrastructure Development Scheme (RIDS) this scheme deals with the provision and the development of infrastructural needs most especially in the rural areas were majority of them are farmers and they lack the basic necessities of life, the government support them in the areas of water supply system for irrigation farming, transport network to ease movement of farm produce, rural energy and power support to enhance local business in the rural areas, and communication network for local and national development
This study is conceptual in nature and it employed secondary data like journals, textbooks, internet resource, government documents, and several others to analyze the contribution of youth empowerment programs on poverty alleviation in Nigeria
Summary
Poverty has been one of the most serious problems facing humanity for many generations as it poses a lot of challenges to the social, political and economic development of all countries around the world. The greatest incidence of poverty has been most felt in the developing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America (World Bank, 2001), and the slow rate at which policies for poverty eradication were intervening always presented a daunting task to governments of the whole world. This trend was likely to continue for many years to come if the right policy dosage was not found soon. This paper intends to evaluate the impact of the youth empowerment scheme program on national development as one of the mechanisms put in place by the government towards alleviating poverty in the country
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