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Lost opportunity for Economic Empowerment

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dc.contributor.author Jonathan, Samuel M.
dc.contributor.author Kumburu, Neema P.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-23T09:15:53Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-23T09:15:53Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Jonathan, S. M., & Kumburu, N. P. (2016). Lost opportunity for economic empowerment: the destruction of cooperatives in Tanzania. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 9(1), 159-166. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1456
dc.description Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies en_US
dc.description.abstract Tanzania celebrated 50 years of mainland independence. In the past half a century, cooperatives were denied the opportunity to promote economic empowerment because of the state’s anti capitalist policies and practices. When malpractices were observed, the state used government officials to replace leaders instead of strengthening the legal framework. After the Arusha Declaration, the state began molding cooperatives into socialist institutions. Alongside this the cooperative sector was made into an arm of the ruling party to control farmers, and in the end they were abolished altogether. In this paper we argue that cooperatives are institutions of the capitalist economic system designed to function as agencies for ameliorating the problems of capitalist progress, and that a lack of this understanding was responsible for their destruction in Tanzania. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher The Journal of Pan African Studies en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 9;No. 1
dc.subject Cooperatives en_US
dc.subject Free market economy en_US
dc.subject Economic empowerment en_US
dc.subject Agencies of development en_US
dc.subject State policies en_US
dc.title Lost opportunity for Economic Empowerment en_US
dc.title.alternative The Destruction of Cooperatives in Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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