Abstract

This study is proposed to depict the relationship between industrial subsector growth and poverty mitigation with a view to achieving sustainable development goals in Nigeria within the period 1981–2023. Nigeria is considered a fragile economy with over 180 million Nigerians living in poverty. For valuable exploration into the aim of this study, the study builds on mechanism of the industrial subsector’s outputs—mining and quarrying, manufacturing, information and communication technology, arts, entertainment and recreation, consumer price index and poverty reduction nexus with the aid of linear dynamics of Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL), Multidimensional approaches—Quantile Regression (QREG), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS) and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) Granger causality methods. Empirical results from both approaches have given insight to the selected objectives of this study. According to the Multidimensional approaches: (i) the coefficients of linear of industry subsector are positively connected to the poverty reduction at 5% statistical significance level except entertainment. Also, findings from VECM Granger causality approach back the findings from the Multidimensional approaches through a nexus between the variables of interest (mining and quarrying, manufacturing, information and communication technology, arts, entertainment and recreation, consumer price index and poverty reduction).