Open AccessAnalysis of Granting Financial Independence to Local Government in line With Their Constitutional Duties/Functions
Author(s) -
Olufemi Peniel Adisa,
Solomon Tunde Ogunbunmi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of human resource studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2162-3058
DOI - 10.5296/ijhrs.v9i4.15304
Subject(s) - independence (probability theory) , revenue , local government , autonomy , government (linguistics) , financial independence , meaning (existential) , simple (philosophy) , accounting , business , public economics , law , economics , political science , psychology , statistics , mathematics , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
The paper considers the granting of financial independence (autonomy) to Local government against their constitutional against their constitutional duties. In doing this, the researcher considered the origin of local, meaning, types, functions, sources of revenue, problems of Local government and way out. Researcher used questionnaire as the instrument of data generation (and-pls remove this) while paired simple t- statistics of data analysis was used for the collected data. Finally, recommendations were made on the need for financial independence of the local government and ways of preventing its abuse.