ISSN: 2249-7196 IJMRR/June 2016/ Volume 6/Issue 6/Article No-6/814-826 Abu Idris et. al., / International Journal of Management Research & Review *Corresponding Author www.ijmrr.com 814 PROLIFERATION OF INTERVENTION PROGRAMS AND POVERTY REDUCTION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO PROGRAMS IN NIGERIA Abu Idris* 1 , Rohana Binti Yusof 2 1 College of Law and Government International School (COLGIS), Universiti Utara Malaysia. 2 Northern Corridor Research Centre, College of Business Studies (NCRC), Universiti Utara Malaysia. ABSTRACT Policy duplication accounts for the persistence of poverty in Nigeria. In the quest for the solutions for poverty reduction; this study compares the National Fadama Development Project III and Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS). The paper adopts quantitative design using Partial Least Square (PLS) to establish the statistical relationship between the duo anti-poverty programs and poverty reduction. The findings underscore that National Fadama Development Project III is significant to poverty alleviation and most beneficial to the target beneficiaries. However, the relationship between CACS and poverty alleviation was insignificant as a result of systemic failure especially corruption, manifest disrespect of institutional law, apparent impunity vis-a-vis perpetual evasion of justice among the stakeholders. Since the programs focused on a common objective of poverty alleviation and also generate its funds from the same sources, this paper calls for the harmonization of the duo programs to curtail the waste of scarce resource and accord the phenomenon a more desirable attention. The study also recommend for structural transformation of judicial institution to combat corruption and lead a crusade for the restoration of the good virtues that is rooted in public service to enhance a hitch free application of rule of law as a stepping stone to facilitate economic development and poverty alleviation. Keywords: Proliferation, intervention programs, poverty reduction, comparative analysis 1. INTRODUCTION Nigeria is potentially a wealthy nation (Adegbami & Uche, 2016), naturally endowed with oil resources, promising choice of agriculture (Haruna & Ibrahim, 2016; Ogidi, 2016), assorted mineral fossils like tin, limestone, iron ore, zinc, coal, barite; and more explicitly blessed with inventive and resilient human resources to transform the country‟s economy and the wellbeing of its teeming citizens (Chindo, Naibbi, & Abdullahi, 2014). Until now, Nigeria is ranked the third country having 7% of exceedingly poor people, despite its rich possessions (Dauda, 2016; Gabriel, 2014; NPC, 2013). Political records shows successive governments in Nigeria have persistently made efforts to address the challenges of poverty through varied intervention programs; such as Operation Feed the Nation (OFN), Green Revolution (GR), Agricultural Development Programs (ADP) Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme (ACGSC), Strategic Grains Reserves Program (SGRP) and the likes (Akujuru & Harcourt, brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by UUM Repository