{"id":3693,"date":"2019-07-10T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"69-of-nigerians-living-below-poverty-line-harms-economy-says-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/10\/69-of-nigerians-living-below-poverty-line-harms-economy-says-oxfam\/","title":{"rendered":"69% of Nigerians Living Below Poverty Line Harms Economy, Says Oxfam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Abbas Jimoh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new report launched\nby Oxfam has revealed that 69 percent of Nigerians are living below the poverty\nline, thus negatively impacting on the nation&#8217;s economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Interim Country\nDirector of Oxfam in Nigeria, Mr. Constant Tchona, disclosed this on Tuesday in\nAbuja at the launching of the first regional report on Commitment to Reducing\nInequality Index (CRII), by Oxfam in West Africa; Development Finance\nInternational and the Office of Senior Special Adviser to the President on\nSustainable Development Goals (OSSAP SDGs). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/69-of-nigerians-living-below-poverty-line-harms-economy-says-oxfam.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abbas Jimoh A new report launched by Oxfam has revealed that 69 percent of Nigerians are living below the poverty line, thus negatively impacting on the nation&#8217;s economic growth.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}