Promoting Business Education for Poverty Reduction in Enugu State

This paper examines the concepts of poverty, poverty reduction strategies and business education. It provides a framework for acquisition and application of business education skill for promoting self-employment and employment in both private and public sectors of the economy, for the purpose of reduction of unemployment and poverty in the country. It also goes further to examine the policy framework for poverty alleviation in Nigeria and how the acquisition and application of business education skills can promote self-employment and reduce the effects of unemployment and poverty in our society. The paper indicates that if business education programme is well applied, it will assist in employment generation and poverty reduction in Enugu State and generally in Nigeria. The paper recommends that high rate of poverty within the society can be reduced to the minimum if Nigerian learn how to create jobs rather than seeking for jobs as a way of life.