Tanzanian Development: A Comparative Perspective (Eastern Africa Series, 45)

✍ Scribed by David Potts

• Publisher: James Currey
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An up-to-date, comparative, examination of the developing economy of Tanzania and its grass roots progress out of poverty, with pointers to its wider implications for policymakers, NGOS and practitioners.



Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of different perspectives on the process of development over time and the issues facing a rapidly growing African economy: political economy; agriculture and rural livelihoods; industrial development; urbanisation; aid and trade; tourism; and the use of natural resources. Comparisons are drawn with other African economies as well as other developing countries, such as Vietnam. An invaluable deep review of Tanzania's economy and development, the book also looks at the wider implications of the research for the futureon the continent and beyond.

David Potts is Honorary Visiting Researcher at the University of Bradford and was Head of the Bradford Centre for International Development 2015-16. He worked for six years as an economist in Tanzania's Ministry of Agriculture in the 1980s, has had many subsequent short-term assignments in the country and is co-editor of Development Planning and Poverty Reduction (2003).

✦ Table of Contents

Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction – Tanzanian Development: A Comparative
Perspective
2. The Political Economy of Tanzania 1967–2017: Reimagining
the State
3. Reflections on the Tanzanian Trajectory: Decline and Recovery
4. Agricultural Development in Tanzania
5. Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges
of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania
6. Contract Farming in Tanzania: Experiences from Tobacco and
Sunflower
7. ‘We Just Sell Water – That is All We Do’: Two Cases of
Small-scale Irrigation in Tanzania
8. The Industrial Development of Tanzania in Comparative
African Perspective
9. Competitiveness in African Manufacturing: Some Evidence
from Tanzania
10. ‘Good Life Never Comes Like Dreams’: Youth, Poverty and
Employment in Arusha
11. International Aid to Tanzania – with some comparisons from
Ghana and Uganda
Untitled
13. Economic Leakage as a Constraint on Tourism’s Effective
Contribution to Local Economic Development in Tanzania
14. Extractive Industry Revenues and their Expenditure in Local
Government Authorities: The Case of the Gold Service Levy
in Geita District Council in Tanzania
15. Conclusion
References
Index