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Improvement and change in rural Tanzania
In: Review of African political economy, Band 49, Heft 172
ISSN: 1740-1720
ABSTRACT
The reviewed book is a collection of studies of rural villages in Tanzania over periods of 20 years or more. Many of the villages changed dramatically in that period, and many of the villagers were able to improve their lives. However, the ways that assets in rural areas are treated in both Household Budget Surveys and GDP figures does not fully reflect these changes, leading, all too easily, to underestimations of the potentials for improvement in villages such as these in rural Africa.
Cotton and textiles industries in Tanzania: the failures of liberalisation
In: Review of African political economy, Band 43, Heft sup1
ISSN: 1740-1720
ABSTRACT
This article uses the story of cotton cultivation in Tanzania to analyse critically the processes of liberalisation and expose the failure of markets to reward quality production. It starts by summarising the technological requirements to grow the crop. It then shows how cotton was central to industrialisation, in Britain and elsewhere. In Tanzania, cotton is grown on small farms and so the article then summarises how small farmers make choices and minimise risks. This creates the context for outline histories, first of cotton growing, and then of textile industries in Tanzania, before turning to the impact of structural adjustment and liberalisation in the late 1980s and 1990s which led to increases in production but losses in quality and price. The article draws conclusions from this about the role of agriculture in processes of economic transformation and the need for institutions which represent the economic interests of small farmers.
Chris Himsworth,The European Charter of Local Self-Government: a treaty for local democracy
In: Local government studies, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 354-355
ISSN: 1743-9388
The European Charter of Local Self-Government: a treaty for local democracyChris Himsworth Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2015, ISBN 9781474403337(HB)
In: Local government studies, S. 1-2
ISSN: 0300-3930
Symphony Hall: A Dream Realised
In: Local government studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 180-181
ISSN: 1743-9388
Symphony Hall: A Dream Realised
In: Local government studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 180-181
ISSN: 1743-9388
State Education Trends: Academic Performance and Spending Over the Past 40 Years
In: Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 746
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Scrutiny in English Local Government and the Role of Councillors
In: The political quarterly: PQ, Band 82, Heft 1, S. 102-112
ISSN: 0032-3179
Scrutiny in English Local Government and the Role of Councillors
In: The political quarterly, Band 82, Heft 1, S. 102-111
ISSN: 1467-923X
Overview and Scrutiny Committees were introduced in England and Wales in the Local Government Act 2000 that ended the role the full council and its committees as the locus of decision‐making for most local authorities. Overview and scrutiny committees composed of councillors not on small decision‐making executives were tasked with holding these to account. The performance of scrutiny committees is variable. Generally they work best where they concentrate on reviews of policy and practice, with recommendations following from well‐researched reports. The paper reviews the difficulties which arise when scrutiny committees endeavour to hold powerful executives to account, and suggests that to strengthen this new legislation is required, in particular to institutionalise scrutiny committees as agencies of the full council, the representative body for the area, comparable to the way in which the select committees at Westminster are the agencies of the Parliament.
The State and Local Government: Towards a New Basis for 'Local Democracy' and the Defeat of Big Business Control
In: Local government studies, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 469-471
ISSN: 0300-3930
Do Vouchers and Tax Credits Increase Private School Regulation?
In: Cato Institute Working Paper
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The Effects of Teachers Unions on American Education
In: Cato Journal, Band 30, Heft 1
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Targets and Terror: Government by Performance Indicators
In: Local government studies, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 271-281
ISSN: 1743-9388