THE EFFECT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINIST-RATION IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. (A CASE STUDY OF IDEMILI LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ANAMBARA STATE)

CHAPETR ONE

INTRODCUTION

This world of development that is bellowing through most developing countries depends to a large extent on the active participation of the population. Inspite of governments effort to provide the people with basic amenities and ensure their social and economic well being, the indisputable fact remains that no being the ever been able to satisfy all sections of  the society nor provide the citizenry with all the social and economic needs.  As a result, local development endeavours have become agents for supplementing government effort in these problems.

In other world though government in developing countries do their best to raise the living standard of the people their effort would be useless and  fruitless if people who are to be the recipients of the benefits of development do not support such effort

As a development country Nigeria is best with enormous and economic problems ranging from rate of unemployment poverty hunger inflation armed robbery economic slump low productivity to malnutrition starvation illiteracy poor housing   poor urban sanitation and general ignorance. It is this bizarre situation that compel local government to mobilize all the human and material resources available to them towards solving these problems

          In the past the tendency was for the government to be looked upon as a benevolent father who was responsible for development of the rural area and the provision of the basic needs of the people.  But now there is change of attitude and the local or rural areas have come to accept self-help and less dependence on government as their basic strategy for development. This paper is concerned with the effect of local government administration in economic and social development of the country and this study will be based on socio- economic development projects going on in the Idemili local government areas.