The Effect of Poverty on Student's Academic Performance

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ABSTRACTS This research work was designed to find the effect of poverty on the academic performance of students in Government Secondary School (G.S.S) Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria. This research work consist of five chapters. Chapter one was on the background of the study. However, the significance of the study was highlighted in addition to the problem encountered by the researcher in the course of investigation. Chapter two was on the review of related literature while chapter three was on methodology, area considered under this section are research design, research methodology, research sample size, sampling process, method of data collection, method of data analysis, methodology problems. Chapter four was devoted to data analysis, where the researcher adopted the frequency method and percentage to analyze the data collected by means of questionnaire on the final note was chapter five which was devoted to the summary and conclusion and recommendations. INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Approximately 1.3 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less. Between 1990 and 2008, efforts to reduce this number were highly successful and the amount of people living in poverty decreased by nearly half, from 48 to 26 percent. But according to the latest United Nation Report, food prices are back on the rise, causing an increase in global poverty or the first time in nearly two decades. Poverty, food prices and hunger are inextricably linked. Poverty causes hunger. Not every poor person is hungry, but almost all hungry people are poor. Millions live with hunger and malnourishment because they simply cannot afford to buy enough food, cannot afford nutritious foods or cannot afford the farming supplies they need to grow enough good food of their own. Hunger can be viewed as a dimension of extreme poverty. It is often
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