SOCIAL SECURITY AS A VERITABLE TOOL FOR ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)

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2014-07-15

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Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University, Keffi.

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Social security is a human right, as well as an economic and political necessity. It is an indispensable part of institutional tissue of an efficient market economy. It is well understood that without social security poverty reduction and development are not possible. This paper therefore, examines the imperatives for social security system and its role in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With the absolute utilization of the secondary sources of data, the paper reveals that social security is an effective instrument that contributes towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets of poverty reduction, gender equality and health. And it is recommended, among other things, that government should encourage and integrate the informal social security system with the formal system.

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Usman, A.Y. (2014) SOCIAL SECURITY AS A VERITABLE TOOL FOR ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)

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