AN APPRAISAL OF THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION (A STUDY OF IMO STATE) PRESENTED BY EWURUM GERALD 2013WP/0075/PA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMEMT FOR THE AWARD OF NATIONAL DIPLOMA (ND) IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC NEKEDE, OWERRI IMO STATE AUGUST, 2015. CERTIFICATION PAGE I certify that this project was carried out in the department of Public Administration, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, by EWURUM GERALD Registration number 2013WP/0075/PA. I permit that this work should be made available for public research and consultation in accordance within the rules governing such in the institution. …………………………………… EWURUM GERALD APPROVAL PAGE THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN READ AND APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF public administration, Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri Imo State in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of National Diploma (ND) in public administration ……………………………………… …………………… MR. JUDE IBEZIESM Date (Project Supervisor) ………………………………………… ……….…………… MRS. AMADI CHIDINMA Date (Programme coordinator) …………………………………… ……………………… DR. O. EZIRIM Date (WNKD Program Director). DEDICATION This project is dedicated to God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Spirit Amen. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT With gratitude to God Almighty who gave me the inspiration, strength and wisdom throughout the writing of this project and to my lovely and caring parents who helped and encourage me in all aspect of life in the person of Mr. & Mrs. Sabatine Ewurum, To my most adorable brothers and sisters for their support, with a special recommendation to Mr. Ewurum chinedu L. and Miss Ewurum Linda U. for their un-resistance moral, financial and otherwise support. To my supervisor Mr. Jude for his kindness sincere gratitude to his good work, To my lecturer, my man Ekerue chinedu J. who contribute earnestly to this work and my friends I must say a solid thank you to all. I pray that God Almighty who started this good work will end it at the appropriate time. TABLE OF CONTENT Preliminary page Title page----------------------------------------------------i Approval page-----------------------------------------------ii Dedication--------------------------------------------------iii Acknowledgement------------------------------------------iv Abstract-----------------------------------------------------v Table of content CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction------------------------------------------1-2 1.1 Background of the study---------------------------2-11 1.2 Statement of the problem------------------------11-12 1.3 Research objectives ------------------------------12-14 1.4 Research question---------------------------------14-15 1.5 Significance of the study ------------------------15-16 1.6 Scope of research --------------------------------16-17 1.7 Limitation of the study----------------------------18-19 1.8 Definition of terms--------------------------------19-20 CHAPTER TWO PLS CALL 08032849308 FOR FULL MATERIAL