The Imperatives of Innovative Sources of Development Finance: Evidence from Nigeria

Abstract

Innovative source of development finance (ISDF) connote a net additional resources to the total resources involving the application of nontraditional mechanisms for sourcing funds capable of catalyzing and supporting fund raising through new sources.The objectives of ISDF is to complement the dwindling financial resources for the millennium development goals (MDGs) which was conceived as a complementary financing efforts to drastically reduce poverty level; with its attendant consequences of socio ills like hunger, illiteracy, shelter, HIV/aids, social strife among others by the year 2015.This work is design to shore up support for the good intention of the programme.In the case of Nigeria of which despite the enormous resources endowments, above average of her population are still wallowing in poverty with the visible consequences of these set of the population being subjugated to subhuman live.Wanton corruption had being the bane of meaningful development in the country.Looting of public treasury and misappropriation of funds are widely acknowledging worldwide.Essentially, if the suggested changes in modalities as appertaining to Nigeria are embraced, the programme will go a long way in improving the wellbeing of the average Nigerian populace as envisaged in MDGs.

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