Juvenilization of Poverty in Nigeria: Implication for Childhood Development and Education
Abstract
Poverty is a global challenge. Several economies have taken steps to ensure that there is total eradication of poverty. Poverty is erroneously associated only with adults but from day to day experience, we gradually introduce this variable to our children. This paper examines ways which poverty has been introduced and perpetuated among the minors of the Nigerian society, its effects on child development and education. Remedies have been suggested after examining the effects of this phenomenon on the development of the Nigerian society.
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