Public Choice, Technology and Industrialization in Tanzania: Some Paradoxes Resolved.
No less than in agriculture, industrialization in Africa is difficult to explain on purely economic grounds. This paper applies public choice theory to some of the most paradoxical aspects of technology and industrialization in one African country, Tanzania. Our analysis turns on two assumptions about bureaucratic behaviour in that country: the first is that bureaucrats have preferences defined over projects rather than technologies and the second is that, in their capacity as managers of state- owned enterprises, these agents of the state have sought to initiate as many new projects as possible, mainly on the basis of foreign aid. These propositions are shown to be consistent with evidence regarding the growth of the public sector in Tanzania during the 1970s and 1980s. Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1996
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Authors: | James, Jeffrey |
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Public Choice. - Springer. - Vol. 89.1996, 3-4, p. 375-92
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