Examining local government expenditures on entrepreneurship development in Tanzania: A case of Mbinga district.
Date
2020
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Mzumbe University
Abstract
The government of Tanzania encourages the development of entrepreneurship differently; however, it seems it does not do well in the international context, therefore the study was aimed to examine local government expenditures on entrepreneurship development in v Tanzania: A case of Mbinga District. The study objective was to examine the role of local government expenditure in entrepreneurship development in Tanzania. The research employed both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer the research problem. The study involved 255 entrepreneurs and used a self-administered questionnaire to gather information from 10 wards out of 29 wards found in Mbinga District, a cross-sectional research design was used to obtain data. The data was managed through SPSS Version 20 and analyzed through STATA Version 14. The findings show that entrepreneur skills come from middle age (average age of 32) whereby the minimum age was 19 and the maximum was 59. Also, results show that the majority of entrepreneurs were from primary school, secondary school, college and technical school while only a few did not attend school and few attend university education. Moreover, the study concluded that social factors such as household’s size, education level, number of business and parent’s financial status were important social factors for entrepreneurship development, while forms of local government expenditure such as the business centres, roads services, licensing, taxation, entrepreneurship loan, and entrepreneurship training were also important forms for entrepreneurship development. The study recommended that the United Republic of Tanzania should ensure that prime working ages have the conducive environment of doing business by enabling them to access capital from various empowerment funds and other financial institutions, also the government should continue to provide education to the societies about family planning, which will reduce the household’s size, further to that there is need for local government to keep on improving schools’ infrastructure for motivating more people to join in the school, as well as to launch compulsory entrepreneurship syllabus for all level of education.
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A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for an award of the degree of Master of Science in Project Planning and Management (Msc.PPM) of Mzumbe University
Keywords
local government, Entrepreneurship development, Local government-Tanzania
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