Post Edited: Intervention Schemes and the Nigerian Poor, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Whatever their merits, none of these discussions around how best to structure poverty intervention programmes will make the grade in our space until we have solved the problem of who is a Nigerian!
Equally, beyond dispute is the acknowledgement that government will see improvements to its finances from the removal of the subsidy. Just as it is agreed that a portion of this gain ought to go back to helping the poor and vulnerable respond to the higher general prices that come off the resulting increase in the petrol price.
Fortunately, recent developments hold out the possibility of solutions along these lines. On one hand, improvements in our payment systems — including the unique biometric identification arrangement that is the “bank verification number”, technologies around the mobile payment systems deployed by most banks, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone — and the proliferation of biometric databases across the country all mean that we may better target the delivery of pro-poor interventions.
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