9 Competitiveness in African Manufacturing: Some Evidence from Tanzania

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. 1 Introduction – Tanzanian Development: A Comparative Perspective 1
7. 2 The Political Economy of Tanzania 1967–2017: Reimagining the State 12
8. 3 Reflections on the Tanzanian Trajectory: Decline and Recovery 32
9. 4 Agricultural Development in Tanzania 58
10. 5. Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania 95
11. 6 Contract Farming in Tanzania: Experiences from Tobacco and Sunflower 116
12. 7 ‘We Just Sell Water – That is All We Do’: Two Cases of Small-scale Irrigation in Tanzania 140
13. 8 The Industrial Development of Tanzania in Comparative African Perspective 163
14. 9 Competitiveness in African Manufacturing: Some Evidence from Tanzania 182
15. 10 ‘Good Life Never Comes Like Dreams’: Youth, Poverty and Employment in Arusha 199
16. 11 International Aid to Tanzania – with some comparisons from Ghana and Uganda 214
17. 12 Real Exchange Rate Changes and Export Performance in Tanzania and Ethiopia 242
18. 13 Economic Leakage as a Constraint on Tourism’s Effective Contribution to Local Economic Development in Tanzania 258
19. 14 Extractive Industry Revenues and their Expenditure in Local Government Authorities: The Case of the Gold Service Levy in Geita District Council in Tanzania 273
20. 15 Conclusion 289
21. References 293
22. Index 330