Effect of Poverty Alleviation on Entrepreneurial Success among Physically Challenged: Beneficiaries of Caring Family Enhancement (CAFÉ) Programme in Anambra State

Abstract

is blessed with enormous natural resources that range from deposits of crude oil in abundant and arable land that support any form of agricultural activities, of which Nigeria is supposed to compete favorably with the super advanced countries in terms of per capita income and GDP. Unfortunately, Nigeria imports virtually everything. The situation has led many Nigerians especially youth striving to leave the country to foreign land seeking a greener pasture. All these arise due to inability of the country to manage its enormous resource as result of leadership failure to follow through with developmental goals, side-by-side with leadership's penchant for primitive accumulation (Sanusi, 2012, cited in Iyoha, Gberevbie, Iruonagbe andEgharevba, 2015).The disparity in standard of living between developed countries and Nigeria is forcing the teeming youths to seek succor in foreign land. Poverty has been the reason for rural urban migration. Poverty is a product of poor nutrition, not having access to quality education, of which education has been identified as bedrock for national development. Due to the prevalent alarming rate of poverty in Nigeria, it is assumed that good things of life are only available to some certain class of citizens.Reports had it that poverty has been on increase in Nigeria after independence in 1960, it was around just 15%, by 1980 it moved upwardly to 28.0%. The rise continued to 46.6% by 1985 despite all the intervention programmes to address poverty in the country by successive government. It dropped to 43% by 1992, though the fall was not really significant. By 1996, poverty sky rocketed to 66%. From 2004 to 2010 poverty level rose from 54.4 to 69. (NBS,2011) Nigerian human development index was only 0.504 positioning the country at 152 out 187 in 2013 (UNDP, 2014). In another view point poverty has been described as failure to attain basic necessities such as being adequately nourished, living a healthy life, possession of skills to participate in economic and social-political life, permission to take part in community activities (Odeh & Okoye, 2014).Poverty is a global phenomenon which affects almost all continents, nations and people differently, there is no nation that is absolutely free from poverty (Oloyede, 2014a) Developed countries of the world have one time or other experienced extreme poverty, they later come over it due to policies and programme meant to address poverty. The will to