Public expenditures (PE) are critical for key public sector functions that contribute to development and welfare improvements, including the provisions of necessary public goods and the mitigation of market failures.

Poverty and a lack of awareness seem to be at the heart of the problem of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria.

Youth employment is not an entirely new topic for research and policy.

Nigeria is still characterized by high reliance on food imports.

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into better living standards.

How research can feed into the policy process in developing countries in general, and in Nigeria more specifically, is not very well understood. Yet, this understanding is a critical part of doing effective policy research.

This study assesses public investment required for agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Nigeria.

This study analyzes growth options in agricultural sub-sectors to accelerate overall economic growth and reduce poverty in Nigeria in the next nine years (2009-17) using an economy-wide, dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) model.