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Tanzania - A Political Economy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Tanzania - A Political Economy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Tanzania in the 1970s was at the forefront of policy innovation.
Near-universal primary education, access to health services and
supplies of clean water subsequently became mainstream ambitions in
Africa and elsewhere. But its policies towards agricultural and
industrial production failed and left the country in a particularly
weak position when it faced the demands of structural adjustment in
the 1980s. This book, originally published in 1982, has been
reissued with a new introduction which brings its themes up to the
present, when income from gold mining and natural gas is making
Tanzania one of the most dynamic economies in Africa today. The
author, first an economic civil servant in Tanzania, later an
academic at the University of Dar es Salaam, was in a unique
position to write it, drawing on his own experiences as well as the
plethora of ideas and debates in Dar es Salaam in the 1970s. The
book has stood the test of time not only because of the range of
material it covers but more profoundly because of the approach it
takes to the work of Tanzania's founding president, Julius Nyerere
- sympathetic to his ideas, deeply critical of failures in
implementation. 25 short easily-read chapters take the story of
Tanzania from pre-colonial times to the present, and show how
Nyerere was hemmed in by what he inherited from the German and
British colonialists who ran the country up to Independence in
1961. It provides an invaluable introduction to anyone coming to
the country for the first time, and offers a profound assessment of
the theoretical debates that have made Tanzania of such interest to
students of development.
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