Managing Rapid Population Growth for Effective Poverty Reduction

Abstract

The paradox and dilemma of a fast growing population of the world amidst virulent, global economic down-turn is receiving scholars’ attention because it might be causal to the pervasive and phenomenal youth restiveness in most parts of the world. This study critically analysed secondary data on how poverty implicates the fast growing population of underdeveloped countries, including Nigeria. The study found that apart
from the rigid cultural structures and practices against birth control, the growing polarity between individual political interest groups, in successive leadership of Nigeria and the interest of the nation, have always been at variance and in deficit. These phenomena inhibit development plans and militate against the poverty reduction objective of Millennium Development Goals.