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Title: | Creating Conditions for Private Enterprise Expansion in Senegal: The Role of Small Towns in Economic Adjustment |
Authors: | Rondinelli, Dennis A. Minis (Jr), Henry P. |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108) |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Period: | August-November |
Pages: | 200-209 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Senegal West Africa |
Subjects: | economic development private enterprises economic policy small towns Development and Technology Economics and Trade Economics, Commerce Economic reform decentralization |
Abstract: | The magnitude of economic problems facing Senegal during the 1990s will require mobilizing resources at the local level and stimulating private investment in employment-generating activities in order to reverse economic decline. The ability of the government of Senegal to deconcentrate economic activities territorially from Dakar and the surrounding region of Cap Vert and to decentralize its administrative structure to support local economic development will become more important. In this article, the authors describe a conceptual framework for understanding the relationships between administrative and spatial decentralization, the economic functions of small towns, and the place of small and medium-scale enterprises in local economic expansion. They examine the trends in urbanization and the administrative, economic and social functions now performed by small and secondary urban centres in Senegal. They also identify the current weaknesses of small urban centres that limit their role as centres of regional economic development. These include inadequate physical infrastructure and services, a weak local tax base, ineffective land policy and weak managerial capacity in municipal governments. Finally, the authors suggest policies and programmes that would strengthen the capacity of small and secondary urban centres to facilitate the expansion of small-scale enterprises and more widespread economic growth. Bibliogr., notes. |