PUBLIC POLICY DISCONTINUITY AND POVERTY IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC POLICY DISCONTINUITY AND POVERTY IN NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: This paper examined the effects of public policy discontinuity on the well-being of the citizens. To a very large extent, public policy discontinuity has a great potential to lead to poverty amongst the citizenry which invariably undermines development. Development can hardly be achieved in the midst of acute poverty in the country. The citizens are more likely disposed to contribute to national development when they live above the poverty line and the reverse would be the case when they live below the poverty line. Secondary method of data collection was adopted in this paper in the sense that data for the paper were sourced from documented and archival materials and data gathered were analyzed with the use of historical method. The paper found out that the high level of poverty and low level of citizens well-being is partly as a result of public policy discontinuity and this condition has also greatly undermined national development. The theoretical framework adopted in this paper is the systems theory. The paper recommended among other things that proper planning and analysis should precede public policy-making and implementation to ensure that government make policies they have the capacity in all its ramification to implement so that the citizens can derive the benefits of such policies in order for their well-being to be assured and guaranteed.

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