Recently, there emerged two very disturbing reports,
each dealing with chronic poverty in Africa vis-a-vis Nigeria , that are very unsettling.
One is from the Brookings Institution, a Washington DC-based Economic
think-tank. Its report titled: "The Start of A New Poverty
Narrative", was specifically based on the work of three experts who are
associated with the "World Poverty Clock", an Economic Study Group
launched in 2017, to track trends in poverty reduction across the world.
The
kennel of the report is that Nigeria
had overtaken India
as the country with the largest number of extreme poor in the world, to be
seconded only by the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC. What this
means is that Nigeria
is the poverty capital of the world. The other one is a damning document
entitled, "Report Card on World Social Progress". Released also in
the United States of America
by the International Society for Life Quality Studies, the report has
identified the best countries in which to live in the world. These include Denmark , Sweden ,
Norway , Finland , Luxembourg ,
Germany , Austria and Belgium , in that order.