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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Public Administration</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Public Administration</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия:  Государственное и муниципальное управление</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8313</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2411-1228</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">33132</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8313-2022-9-4-475-489</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>International Experience of Public Administration</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Международный опыт государственного управления</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Nigeria’s Poverty Reduction Scheme: Spreading Herself Too Thin?</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Программа сокращения бедности в Нигерии: хватит ли ресурсов?</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7992-3099</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Ajiboye</surname><given-names>Babatope M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Аджибойе</surname><given-names>Бабатопе М.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>преподаватель кафедры мира и конфликтологии</p></bio><email>babatope.ajiboye@fuoye.edu.ng</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Federal University Oye Ekiti</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Федеральный университет Ойе Экити</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>9</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 9, NO4 (2022)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 9, №4 (2022)</issue-title><fpage>475</fpage><lpage>489</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-12-30"><day>30</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Ajiboye B.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Аджибойе Б.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Ajiboye B.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Аджибойе Б.М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/public-administration/article/view/33132">https://journals.rudn.ru/public-administration/article/view/33132</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The Nigerian government expects to effectively pull 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030. Without a doubt, the government was compelled to intervene because of the country’s severe poverty, as seen by the large number of out-of-school children, gender-based difficulties, and the residents’ pitiful socioeconomic realities. And, in order to get out of these mudslides, the government decided it was time to create a plan capable of resolving these concerns in less than a decade. However, tracing the Nigerian government’s track record of developmental failure, misplaced priorities, hasty policy formulation, and poor policy implementation that have remained recurrent feral flaws in the system, the paper expresses a cynical view about the plan’s realization; relying on historical accounts of vision failures and the country’s economic realities, it sees the scheme as an overzealous project taken too far and submits that it will be nothing different from the failed visions of the past.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Правительство Нигерии рассчитывает эффективно помочь 100 миллионам нигерийцев справиться с бедностью к 2030 году. Без сомнения, правительство было вынуждено вмешаться из-за крайней нищеты в стране, о чем свидетельствует большое количество детей, не посещающих школу, гендерные трудности и бедственное социально-экономическое положение жителей. С целью выбраться из этого бедственного положения правительство Нигерии разработало план, способный решить эти проблемы менее чем за десятилетие. Однако исследования указывают на целый ряд неудач нигерийского правительства в этой области, неуместных приоритетов, поспешных утверждений государственных политических программ и их неэффективной реализации. На основе анализа этого опыта и выявленных слабых мест политической и управленческой систем, в статье рассматривается перспектива реализации государственного плана по борьбе с бедностью. Проект рассматривается в контексте прозвучавших отчетов о неэффективности предыдущих программ и экономических реалий страны. На основании предпринятого анализа в статье строится предположение о чрезмерной и даже фанатичной попытке реализовать проект, который не опирался на опыт прошлых подобных проектов и может привести к тем же результатам.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Nigeria poverty reduction</kwd><kwd>scheme</kwd><kwd>hasty-policy</kwd><kwd>Nigeria</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>сокращение бедности</kwd><kwd>Нигерия</kwd><kwd>государственный план</kwd><kwd>государственная политика</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria: Executive Summary. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Report Date: May 2020: 1-27. URL: http://www.ifra-nigeria.org/img/pdf/muslimchristains-religious-violence-nigeria.pdf (accessed: 01.10.2022).</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>World Population Review. Poverty Rate by Country 2021. 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