Poverty alleviation programs in Nigeria: a study on World Mission Agency (WMA) using principal component analysis

Abstract

The measurement of poverty in developing nations are carried out to reduce the severity of poverty in such nations. There are Governmental and Non-Governmental organizations that take poverty reduction as a project, and one such is a faith-based oraganisation such as World Mission Agency (WMA). This study focuses on the poverty alleviation of WMA and evaluates the impact accessibility and significance of WMA poverty alleviation programs. A survey was conducted at Ota, Ogun state, Nigeria. Data collected were analyzed using the principal component analysis and the t-test. The results obtained were discussed, one vivid findings of this study was that the effectiveness of the poverty alleviation programmes of the World Mission Agency in Ota was based on the systematic establishment of programmes that address the needs of people at the grassroots level and recommendations were made which include that the federal government of Nigeria should take a cue from the World Mission Agency Poverty Alleviation Programs

Keywords

• Faith Based Organisation
• Nigeria
• poverty
• principal component analysis
• t-test
• Robert Read, Economics, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK