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Public Policy and the Industrial Development of Tanzania, 1961–95

In: The Industrial Experience of Tanzania

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  • Donné Engelen
  • Adam Szirmai
  • Paul Lapperre

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Throughout the past decades the economic and industrial performance of less developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa can be captured in three words: boom, crisis and adjustment (Little et al., 1993). The sequence of rapid growth, followed by crisis and an ongoing process of structural adjustment, has received a great deal of attention, both from neo-liberal and structuralist points of view. Neo-liberal doctrine emphasizes the primacy of markets and the negative effects of excessive state intervention in the process of economic development. Structuralists, on the other hand, seek explanations of economic underdevelopment in the combination of negative external influences, unfavourable initial conditions and a variety of structural and institutional constraints that developing countries have had to face (Lensink, 1996; Szirmai, 1997a) Overcoming these structural constraints requires active intervention on the part of governments.

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  • Donné Engelen & Adam Szirmai & Paul Lapperre, 2001. "Public Policy and the Industrial Development of Tanzania, 1961–95," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adam Szirmai & Paul Lapperre (ed.), The Industrial Experience of Tanzania, chapter 1, pages 11-49, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52451-4_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230524514_2
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