Challenges and Prospects of Revenue Generation and Utilization in Urban Local Government of Ethiopia: The case of Addis Ababa City Administration
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2020-06
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A.A.U
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The main purpose of this study was to assess the challenges and prospects of revenue generation and utilization in urban local government of Ethiopia focusing on Addis Ababa city administration. To deal with the research objectives, seven fundamental research questions were formulated to examine revenue autonomy, institutional framework, sources of revenue, trends in revenue generation and utilization, extent of revenue generation to city’s expenditure, existing challenges surrounding the efficiency of revenue generation and utilization and means and prospects to strengthen the city's revenue generation and utilization capacity and efficiency.
To conduct the study, mixed method research design was employed, and Non- probability sampling and purposive sampling methods were used to select respondents. The main instruments of data collection were questionnaire, in-depth interview and document review. The data were analyzed using tables and percentage.
The finding of the study reveals that the city’s revenue generation and utilization processes were handicap by different challenges. From the findings of the study it was possible to conclude that revenue generation and utilization is improving over the study periods despite some challenges that needed to be addressed.
The need to strengthen the institutional capacity in a way to enhance the city’s revenue generation and utilization, carefully assessing and finding new revenue sources and exhaustively exploiting the existing revenue sources by implementing revenue rules, regulations and procedures are some of the recommendations forwarded in order to consistently improve revenue generation and utilization process of Addis Ababa city administration.
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A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa University in partial fulfillment of requirement for the Masters Degree of Public Management and Policy in Public Administration and Development Management
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Prospects of Revenue Generation, Utilization in Urban Local Government