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Abstract title: Conceptual issues in Nigeria's gender-specific rural poverty alleviation strategy
Author:

C. O. Izugbara and J.K Ukwayi

Issue: Volume 12, Number 1 - 2002

Gender-specific strategies have become very popular in efforts to achieve the sustainable alleviation of rural poverty in Africa. However, there is growing concern that this strategy is based upon weak conceptual grounds. Based on  insights gleaned from years of involvement with women-only development projects in Nigeria, the authors highlight some key conceptual challenges to this strategy and  argue that unless these are overcome, these pitfalls will eventually consign Nigeria's gender-specific poverty alleviation strategy to the graveyard of disused development paradigms.

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