INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN DANDORA II VILLAGE; NAIROBI, KENYA

Abstract

Socio-economic infrastructure is a prerequisite for the development of any economy. Transport, housing, education and health facilities have become part and parcel of human existence and development; it is quite difficult to imagine a modern economy without these services because they are vital to the house hold life as well as to the economic activities that boost growth. Socio economic infrastructure plays a crucial role in promoting economic growth and thereby contributes to reduction of economic exclusion and poverty in any given country. Greater access of the poor to education and health services; housing, proper sanitation and road network is needed to bring equitable development and socio empowerment especially in low income suburbs; it is an important precondition for sustainable economic and socio development. Socio economic infrastructural investments in transport, education, health, housing, sanitation and auxiliary services play a vital and indirect role in development, and make a significant contribution towards growth by increasing productivity especially of human capital and other factors of production. This paper establishes how social economic infrastructure influences economic growth of Dandora II, a village setting of the larger Dandora suburb, Embakasi North, Nairobi.