Why Decentralization yields less Impact on Poverty reduction in Ethiopia?
Although the arrangement of decentralization in Ethiopia has promised a lot to reduce poverty and brings some positive contribution much less than the intended goals, there are a number of factors affecting it did not meet the intended goals:
1) Imbalance population growth with economic growth- in the current national census, Ethiopia has a population of more than 80 million which made it second rank in Africa and fifteen in the world. Although population growth merely is not a problem for a country if there is right policy, but for Ethiopia because of disproportional growth of population size and a sluggish economic growth accompanied by low level of income and widespread …show more content…
The very philosophy of such linkage is that the more decentralized power to lower echelon of government indeed reduce the prevalence of poverty since decentralization enable local people to participate in their socio-economic and political affair at grass root level. However, it was mistaken to take it as it is because to make decentralization effective so as to reduced poverty, it highly dependent on various factors such as the country general setting like population size, literacy level; level of income and the degree of regional inequality, the dedication of leaders to be responsive to their electorate and the nature of decentralization whether it is by default or by design are some of the determinant factors for the effectiveness of decentralization in reducing …show more content…
Local government especially district level governments are not found themselves in a position to formulate and implement anti-poverty policy because of multitudes of problems such as shortage of financial and technical skills, limited resources available, heavy hand intervention of upper tier of government (including regional and federal) over local affairs make them an implementing agents of upper government policy, lack of the culture of accountability, transparency and commitment local officials to the electorate but for upper officials are among others many impediment factors existed at local
Although the arrangement of decentralization in Ethiopia has promised a lot to reduce poverty and brings some positive contribution much less than the intended goals, there are a number of factors affecting it did not meet the intended goals:
1) Imbalance population growth with economic growth- in the current national census, Ethiopia has a population of more than 80 million which made it second rank in Africa and fifteen in the world. Although population growth merely is not a problem for a country if there is right policy, but for Ethiopia because of disproportional growth of population size and a sluggish economic growth accompanied by low level of income and widespread …show more content…
The very philosophy of such linkage is that the more decentralized power to lower echelon of government indeed reduce the prevalence of poverty since decentralization enable local people to participate in their socio-economic and political affair at grass root level. However, it was mistaken to take it as it is because to make decentralization effective so as to reduced poverty, it highly dependent on various factors such as the country general setting like population size, literacy level; level of income and the degree of regional inequality, the dedication of leaders to be responsive to their electorate and the nature of decentralization whether it is by default or by design are some of the determinant factors for the effectiveness of decentralization in reducing …show more content…
Local government especially district level governments are not found themselves in a position to formulate and implement anti-poverty policy because of multitudes of problems such as shortage of financial and technical skills, limited resources available, heavy hand intervention of upper tier of government (including regional and federal) over local affairs make them an implementing agents of upper government policy, lack of the culture of accountability, transparency and commitment local officials to the electorate but for upper officials are among others many impediment factors existed at local