According to the Niger Delta Human Development Report, "The Niger Delta is a region suffering from administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic conflict." The prevailing situation in the Niger Delta not only explains the increasing waves of restiveness in the region, but it also predicts a grim future for the region and the country. The report continues, “For most people of the delta, progress and hope, much less prosperity, remain out of reach. If unaddressed, these do not bode well for the future of Nigeria or an oil hungry world.”