Belachew, Mekete (PhD)Gebremichael, Habte2022-03-222023-11-192022-03-222023-11-192001-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/30742Jimma 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 benefited 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 allracted 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 keflegnas which further clustered into 19 kebele units, though hazy with distinctively definedfimctional centers. The objectives of the study was set 10 evaluate the level of its development by assessing the trends of the inter relationship between the growth of its population, economic, and, infrastructural 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 profile, 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 infrastrur;.tural 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 first 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 infrastructuralfoundation. 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 profile. It also opinionated for institutional mechanism that can fully enforce collection and promote more buoyant revenue internally and policy guaranteed enough to allract 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.enGeographical Study of UrbanThesis