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Title: PROMOTING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CITIES OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THROUGH INFORMAL SECTOR ECONOMIC POTENTIALS: AN ANALYSIS OF OBSTACLES AND THEIR ROOT CAUSES IN THE CONTEXT OF DODOMA CITY IN TANZANIA
Authors: Daniel Wandera Clief Naku
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Daniel Wandera Clief Naku Academician, Researcher & Consultant, Department of Geography, St John's University of Tanzania - East Africa.
MLA 8 Naku, Daniel Wandera Clief. "PROMOTING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CITIES OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THROUGH INFORMAL SECTOR ECONOMIC POTENTIALS: AN ANALYSIS OF OBSTACLES AND THEIR ROOT CAUSES IN THE CONTEXT OF DODOMA CITY IN TANZANIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 4, Apr. 2020, pp. 971-982, ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=71. Accessed Apr. 2020. APA Naku, D. (2020, April). PROMOTING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CITIES OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THROUGH INFORMAL SECTOR ECONOMIC POTENTIALS: AN ANALYSIS OF OBSTACLES AND THEIR ROOT CAUSES IN THE CONTEXT OF DODOMA CITY IN TANZANIA. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(4), 971-982. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=71 Chicago Naku, Daniel Wandera Clief. "PROMOTING LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CITIES OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THROUGH INFORMAL SECTOR ECONOMIC POTENTIALS: AN ANALYSIS OF OBSTACLES AND THEIR ROOT CAUSES IN THE CONTEXT OF DODOMA CITY IN TANZANIA." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 4 (April 2020), 971-982. Accessed April, 2020. ijsser.org/more2020.php?id=71.
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Abstract: Literature shows that the informal sector is a major player in employment creation, goods and service provision as well as a source of income in many cities of developing countries. These aspects among others constitute economic potentials from the informal sector. Through these potentials as reflected in literature, the informal sector is expected to contribute to local economic development in cities where the sector is pre-dominantly prevalent especially in developing countries. Unfortunately, realizing the contribution of these potentials to local economic development in such cities remains to be much of a myth than a reality. There are several obstacles that continue to make it difficult for these economic potentials to actually contribute to local economic development in these cities and at the same time, these obstacles are seen to emanate from various root causes. In view of this challenge, this paper through an empirical study examined these obstacles and their root causes in the context of Dodoma City which appears to be a rapidly growing city in Tanzania.

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