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Contribution Of Public Infrastructure In Community Development
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
As have been noted, the benefit that an
economy can derive from infrastructure development cannot be over
emphasized. The economic pressures behind urbanization are very
powerful. Cities and towns are the home of most industry, commerce, and
services. These sectors of the economy can be highly productive. World
wide, higher per capital incomes are closely related to higher levels of
urbanization lack of infrastructure, limits investment and the lack of
limits infrastructure, low-level equilibrium to finance urban
infrastructure and services.
Urban public authorities in community
development like Nigeria have come under increasing financial pressures
during the last decade. They now face a rapidly growing demand for urban
services as a result of continuing rapidly growth howe4ver, there
capacity to supply urban services as well as undertake the necessary
infrastructure development , is severely constrained by a shortage of
fiscal resources. This situation is the result of a combination of
factors including reductions in inter-governmental transfers, increased
cost of debt servicing, as well as the cost of borrowing due high
interest rates, and higher unit costs of providing services which have
restricted revenue growth. To compound the problem many cities not only
have a massive backlog of new infrastructure requirements but also need
to allocate substantially more resources to maintenance renovation, and
replacement of older, deteriorating equipment.
However, in Nigeria,
government has not lived up to expectations envisaged convening urban
infrastructure and services provisions. This situation is not
unconnected with many problems these urban centers hold for the economy,
which are follows:
i. Urban poverty
ii. Urban pollution
iii. Urban policies in disarray.
But
government cannot do every thing. The widely held view that government
should handily all urban development activities is another big problem.
This idea persists even in the face of the obvious weaknesses of public
sector institutions: inadequate budgets, low remuneration of employees,
poor management practice and political interference, to name a few.
Ineffective
local government system is another critical problem in urban
infrastructure development in Nigeria. Today’s local government
administration is little more than caretakers, unable to carry out their
statutory and assigned functions. The large numbers of local government
is a huge administrative and fiscal burden for states and the federal
government in urban infrastructure and service deliveries in Nigeria.
Hence,
the author (researched would advance solution to the problems and at
the some time make very useful recommendations that will both alleviate
these problems and enhance development of urban infrastructure and
service in community development (Nigeria).
1.3 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES
With
reference to the problems already mentioned in 1.2 above, this
empirical study is designed towards achieving the following objectives,
which motivate the author (researcher) into action.
i. To critically
examine and discuss the various ways urban infrastructure and service
could be financed in a developing economic like Nigeria.
ii. To find
out the role being played by the various government levels towards the
provision of urban infrastructure and services to its growing urban
population in an economy.
iii. To determine the extent institutional
arrangements of the various economic groups like the world bank had
helped in urban infrastructure deliveries in Nigeria.
iv. To analyze the overall problems that inhibits the present arrangements (practices) in Nigeria towards urban development .
v.
To offer solutions and or recommendations that will help developing
economic like Nigeria in urban development programme (in areas of urban
infrastructure and services).
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