Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tomich, Thomas P
• Kilby, Peter
• Johnston, Bruce F

Titel

KENYA AND TANZANIA

Ist Teil von

• Transforming Agrarian Economies, 2018, p.365-398

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite much in common—physical environment, socioeconomic characteristics, colonial history, and culture—Kenya and Tanzania have had widely differing stories since independence in the 19608. Broadly, Kenya’s policies have succeeded, Tanzania’s have failed (although a constituency with appropriate strategic notions that is emerging in Tanzania might reverse that relative performance). Tanzania’s per capita gross national product (GNP) increased at 0.9 percent a year between 1965 and 1984, to $2,10. In Kenya it increased by 2.3 percent annually and, at $300 in 1984, per capita GNP was well above the $2,2,0 average for twenty-five low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank