Structural Adjustment and the Fragile Nation

The Demise of Social Unity in Tanzania

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4250656
AutoresPaul J Kaiser (autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas227-237
Data de publicação1996-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00055300
OpenAlexW2147672713
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas10

Tanzaniais one of the few African countries that has remained relatively calm since independence. However, its long history of ethnic, racial, and religious cohesion has begun to fray as the Government attempts to reform its ailing economy in accordance with World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionalities. This process offers an opportunity to explore the degree to which there is a causal link between liberal economic reform and social unity. This is especially relevant as many African régimes are implementing similar policy prescriptions in the form of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), the terms of which often depend on the minimal financial leverage that African negotiators havevis-à-visthe advanced industrial countries of the North.1York Bradshaw and Zwelakhe Tshandu have argued that 'the burgeoning debt crisis may represent the "new dependency" for many African countries which cannot acquire capital from other sources besides the IMF and the World Bank

Debt · Demise · Development economics · Economic policy · Economics · Independence (probability theory) · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Structural adjustment · Tanzania · Washington Consensus · Finance · International Development and Aid