Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic – Chapter 3

Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic

Chapter 3: Politics and business

Chapter outline

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical framework and methodology
3. The early independence period: 1961–66
   • The situation at independence
   • Origins of the position of Asians
   • Development initiatives in early post-independence period
   • Continued concern over social and economic differentiation
4. The Arusha Declaration: business and politics relations (1967–85)
   • The Arusha Declaration response
   • Emerging public sector business leaders
   • Initiatives to promote indigenous business sector
   • Initiatives to promote parastatal sector business
   • Public–private business relations
   • Performance of parastatal businesses
   • Political elite–parastatal–private business relations
   • Decentralisation of management of rents and loss of political control
5. Policy reforms: opening up space for business 1986–95
   • Reforms as response to the crisis
   • Privatisation and politics–business relations
   • The balance between industrialists and traders
   • Political elite engagement in business
6. Initiatives to consolidate reforms and define the development agenda, 1996–2015
   • Long-term development agenda revisited
   • Industrialisation and politics–business relations
   • Formalisation of state–private sector relationships
   • Politics of indigenous and non-indigenous business
   • Politics and foreign business relations
   • Corruption: informal politics–business relationships
   • Transparency without accountability and erosion of credibility of the ruling party
7. Fifth-phase government: fighting corruption and changing relationships between politics and business
8. Conclusion
9. References
10. Discussion of ‘Politics and Business in Tanzania’

Author: Sam Wangwe, DAIMA Associates
With discussion by: Hazel Gray, University of Edinburgh