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Bureaucratic, Engineering and Economic Men: Decision-Making for Technology in Tanzania’s State-Owned Enterprises

In: Theory and Reality in Development

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  • Jeffrey James

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In a recent speech the President of Tanzania observed that ‘Working towards the goal of ‘people-oriented development’ means … allowing our national objectives to determine what type of technology we adopt or adapt from the North’.2 Because Tanzania, following the Arusha Declaration of 1967, has relied extensively upon public enterprise, and since the government has had the chance to influence directly the technology chosen by these enterprises, one might reasonably expect to find in the latter a fairly close reflection of national objectives. Yet what evidence is available suggests that this has not occurred: on the contrary, the degree of coincidence in manufacturing parastatals appears to be remarkably slight.

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  • Jeffrey James, 1986. "Bureaucratic, Engineering and Economic Men: Decision-Making for Technology in Tanzania’s State-Owned Enterprises," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sanjaya Lall & Frances Stewart (ed.), Theory and Reality in Development, chapter 13, pages 217-239, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-18128-5_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18128-5_13
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