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  Comparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in production and trade via optimal resource allocation.
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  Comparative analysis of economic reform and structural adjustment programs in Eastern Africa with emphasis on trade policies

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  In view of the potential implications of structural adjustment and economic reform programs for subregional and regional trade, food security, and overall economic growth and stability, this study is a step in the direction of informing Governments in the region and the international community of the status and future of economic reforms, especially trade policy reforms and how they all relate to
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  Private and communal property ownership regimes in Tanzania

  Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1998

  Tanzania’s well-known village establishment programme, which is called Ujamaa , allowed for the sedentarization of almost all rural residents in some 8 000 villages in the 1970s.
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  Agriculture and rural development in Tanzania: a survey of the 1980-1995 literature

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1995

  The study aimed at reviewing the literature and providing a bibliography on agriculture and rural development in Tanzania.
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  Raising production levels and alleviating poverty in Tanzania's rural areas: challenges of rural transformation

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2000

  This article suggests that the crucial impetus for promoting agricultural productivity and non-farm employment, in Tanzania, would have to come from a technological transformation of the agricultural sector and rural industrialisation.Policies and strategies to be adopted, in this context:Improve the linkage between policy formulation and policy executionEstablish the minimum
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  The debt crisis in the LDCs: a case study of Tanzania

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1998

  This article explores the current indebtedness of LDCs, policies leading to this situation, current economic difficulties arising in LDCs and policy recommendations to deal with this issue.In the mid-1980s the deteriorating financial situation in a number of LDCs reached its climax. The ability of the LDCs to service their debts weakened and most of them failed to honour their outstandings.
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  Aid effectiveness in Tanzania: the case of DANIDA aid

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1996

  This article addresses the challenges posed by the new realities which underpin development aid and assistance, such as decline in aid flows and emphasis on the optimal use of aid.Policy recommendations within this context:Put in place policies and incentives to encourage mobilisation and utilisation of domestic resources (human and capital)Promote self-reliance and encourage
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  The contribution of soil and water conservation to sustainable livelihoods in semi-arid areas of Sub-Saharan Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2000

  Discusses the role of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices in sustainable livelihoods and presents preliminary findings from case studies conducted in Tanzania and Uganda. Describes the conditions under which households choose to invest in building or maintaining SWC practices within the framework of local livelihood strategies, together with the policies and structures which influence t
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  Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihood practices and policies

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  This paper synthesises the findings and main policy implications of new empirical studies on changing rural livelihoods from the De-Agrarianisation and Rural Employment (DARE) research programme at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden.Conclusions include the following: Largely as a result of structural adjustment performances, diversification out of agriculture has become th
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  Land tenure reform and the balance of power in eastern and southern Africa

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  This paper examines the current wave of land tenure reform in eastern and southern Africa. It discusses how far tenure reform reflects a shift in powers over property from centre to periphery. A central question is whether tenure reform is designed to deliver to rural smallholders greater security of tenure and greater control over the regulation and transfer of these rights.

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