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Title:Marketing Reform? The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Liberalisation in Tanzania
Author:Cooksey, BrianISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Development Policy Review
Volume:21
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:67-91
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:agricultural policy
agricultural exports
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Politics and Government
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7679.00199
Abstract:Using the examples of maize, coffee and tobacco, this article argues that the liberalization of Tanzanian export agriculture from the early 1990s to the present has failed to take place to the extent claimed by the Tanzanian government and donor agencies. While internal food markets have largely been liberalized, donorinspired attempts to liberalize export crop markets have been seriously undermined by the politicalbureaucratic class. As in other countries undergoing adjustment under World Bank/IMF programmes, a combination of local vested interests and concerns with the 'rigged rules and double standards' of global commodity markets has led to a systematic but underreported backlash against liberalization. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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