Capturing the Ramifications of Poverty Alleviation Hotspots and Climate Change Effect in Nigeria: A Social Network Analysis

Emmanuel Ikechukwu Umeonyirioha (), Renxian Zhu, Collins Chimezie Elendu and Liang Pei
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Emmanuel Ikechukwu Umeonyirioha: School of Public Affairs/Public Policy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Renxian Zhu: School of Public Affairs/Public Policy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Collins Chimezie Elendu: Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Enivornmental of Pollution and Bioremediation, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
Liang Pei: Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Enivornmental of Pollution and Bioremediation, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 15, 1-28

Abstract: Nigerian poverty research is often fragmented and focuses on samples with minimal actionable strategies. This study aims to identify essential poverty alleviation and climate change strategies by synthesizing existing research, extracting the most critical poverty alleviation and climate change factors, and assessing strategies to combat poverty and climate change in Nigeria. We obtained, utilizing the centrality measures of social network analysis and the visualization tools of bibliometric analysis, the research hotspots extracted from 119 articles from the SCOPUS database for the period 1994–2023, compared outcomes with other countries, and analyzed their implications for eradicating poverty in Nigeria. We find that low agricultural productivity and food insecurity are some of the essential poverty-engendering factors in Nigeria, which are being intensified by climate change irregularities. Also, researchers demonstrate weak collaboration and synergy, as only 0.02% of researchers collaborated. Our findings highlight the need to direct poverty alleviation efforts to the key areas identified in this study and increase cooperation between poverty alleviation and climate researchers.

Keywords: poverty alleviation; climate change; centrality measures; Nigeria; social network analysis (SNA); research hotspots (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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