Why Poor People Remain Poor: Key Elements for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development

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Dr Ajaga Nji

Why Poor People Remain Poor

Key Elements for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development

Dr Ajaga Nji

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English

FriesenPress
22 July 2025

Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Social classes; Rural communities

The empirical evidence why people remain poor and the poverty reduction strategies discussed in this book squarely address popular themes that cut across national and international development agendas, as well as the nebulous and chronic question of poverty: its causes, consequences and ways of elimination. More ""tools"" in the toolbox for poverty reduction have been added as the author recognizes that misery is a condition predominantly and socially manufactured by human beings. Why Poor People Remain Poor: Key Elements for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development is not a ""how-to"" manual but a prognosis of over 20 years of research on the circumstances that make and keep people poor. It is conceived as a roadmap for explaining, understanding and implementing strategies that will remove or reduce poverty in human societies. The book is addressed to students of development, researchers, scientists, policy makers, politicians and practitioners in the African continent and other emerging nations.

By: Dr Ajaga Nji
Imprint: FriesenPress
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781038334275
ISBN 10: 1038334276
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 22 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ajaga Nji was born to illiterate parents in the small village of Tugi, in North Western Cameroon. Through relentless determination, he obtained a PhD from Iowa State University of Science and Technology (USA) in 1980. He was a renowned Professor of Rural Sociology, Social Change and Development at the University of Dschang (Cameroon): a social analyst and evaluation consultant to several United Nations Agencies and other international Organizations including CIDA, IDRC, USAID, The World Bank, Rotary International, Bread for the World and INADES Foundation. Later in his career, he was Inspector of Academic Affairs in the Ministry of Higher Education in Cameroon. He has published 9 books, including the Revitalization of Rural Communities through Integrated Rural Development, and more than 40 articles on technology and poverty reduction in scientific journals. Ajaga Nji was the father to 8 children and passed away in 2021.