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Economic Performance in Post-Market Economies and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Tanzania

Tanzania Journal of Development Studies

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Title Economic Performance in Post-Market Economies and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Tanzania
 
Creator Mwaigomole, EA
 
Description The post-structural adjustment strategies being emphasized by the IMF, the World Bank and donor countries in Africa are privatization and liberalization. In theory, both strategies are assumed to allow firms to operate efficiently and competitively. The thrust of the reforms are necessitated by the quest for improved economic growth, investment, efficiency and productivity. In Tanzania, the parastatal sector reform policy to improve economic performance was adopted in 1992 as a national policy. This paper reviews the economic performance and the poverty status in the country since the adoption of this market-oriented policy. The paper is organized into six sections. Section one, which is the introduction, provides a brief discussion on privatization and liberalization strategies. Section two looks into the background of the economic reforms, and then section three examines the privatization and investment trends. While section four discusses the macroeconomic perspectives and the economic reforms, section five focuses on the impact of the reforms on poverty reduction. Section six concludes the paper.
 
Publisher Educational Publishers and Distributors
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2010-10-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/tjds/article/view/60419
10.4314/tjds.v8i1.60419
 
Source Tanzania Journal of Development Studies; Vol 8, No 1 (2008); 95-108
2591-6831
0856-9622
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/tjds/article/view/60419/48648
 
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