A Geographical Study of Urban Development the Case of Jimma Town
| dc.contributor.advisor | Belachew, Mekete (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gebremichael, Habte | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-13T14:43:26Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-19T12:04:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-13T14:43:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-19T12:04:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Jimma is one of the oldest towns which rendered urban service for areas located in south-Western Ethiopia. The early origin and the later development of the town benejited its strategic location, early discovery of coffee and participation in distant trade. It also depend on the wise management of its leaders who pacified the region and auracted more people with different views and wealth to the area. The Italian plan to promote the town as the second "Rome" and the monarchical rule Jimma as "Yewubet" ketema accelerated it progress. The town covers 4622.58 hectares of area. The population of the town projected for the year 2000 is 119510. The study area is divided into three kejiegnas which filrther clustered into 19 kebele units, though hazy with distinctively dejinedfimctional centers. __ The()!Jjectives oithe study was set to evaluate the leveL2iits develQpment OJ! assessing the trends of the inter relationship between the growth of its population, economic, and, i nfrastructural foundations. The present urban environment of the town is characterized by population pressure and fast expanding physical area. The town lacks stable management due to unsustainable bureaucracy which is organized on poor staff projile, which in one way or another contributed to the town to posses poor revenue base. The factors illustrated in combination compounded the problem and there by exaceberated the infrastructural foundation The problems are analyzed interms of administrative, demographic and economic effects on the infrastructural foundation of the town. It has emphatically examined the sources of revenue, budget selling (allocation), and sector plan implementation. Therefore found out the existence of weak correlation in the jirst and stronger one in the later. It also surveyed the income variation of the population understudy, which also manifested in serious gap. High unemployment rate and the basic variables that contributed to sluggish economic development of the town were rooted to the current fall in coffee price. In its conclusion the paper tried to suggest for alternate policy measures to ameliorate the prevalent poor economic and infrastructural foundation. To mitigate the issues, it suggested for an inquiry of policy amendment for sustainable bureaucracy for the town administration and continuing education opportunity for the staff projile. It also opinionated for institutional mechanism that can fully enforce collection and promote more buoyant revenue internally and policy guaranteed enough to a/tract external source of revenue for more and more business in the town. For the time being the intensively implemented family planning exercises no doubt could stabilize the population growth, nevertheless for greater progress the town administration must seek ways to strengthen the productivity of the tertiary sector management (trade, transports). The town could best serve and benefit in this sector till the realization of industrial economy | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/31668 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Geographical Study of Urban Development | en_US |
| dc.title | A Geographical Study of Urban Development the Case of Jimma Town | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |