TY - JOUR AU - Eyitayo, Ajibade Olalekan AU - Alani, Busari Ismail PY - 2020/03/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Local Government Fiscal Autonomy and Rural Development; Empirical Evidences from Yewa South and IFO Local Governments of Ogun State: Array JF - Acta Universitatis Danubius. Administratio JA - AUDA VL - 11 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/AUDA/article/view/183 SP - AB - <p>The study focuses on the link between local government fiscal autonomy and rural<br>development, the effect of local government fiscal autonomy on rural development and to investigate<br>the extent at which poor capital funding has affected the rate of rural development; empirical<br>evidences from Yewa South and IFO local government areas of Ogun State. The research utilized<br>both primary and secondary data. The primary data were collected through questionnaire from a<br>sample of 130 staff out of the total population of the staff of the 2 local governments. The respondents<br>were selected using stratified random sampling technique in which the total number of staff in each<br>local government was put into consideration before final selection using simple random sampling.<br>The paper employed descriptive statistics using ordinary least square in SPSS to analyze the<br>hypotheses in order to achieve the objectives of the study. The study finds out that there is a negative<br>effect of poor capital funding on the lives of the local people with the P-values &lt;5% significant level.<br>Hence, the study concludes that local governments need financial autonomy to perform their civic<br>responsibilities of improving the standard of living and rural development of the people at the<br>grassroots. Therefore, the study recommended that federal and state government should stop undue<br>interference in the finances of local government councils so that yearly statutory allocations to them<br>can be used for developmental projects.</p> ER -