This volume places the apparent Tanzanian policy reversal regarding the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the context of economic, political, and social changes in the 1980s, focusing on the nature and impact of the liberalization process.
Horace Campbell is a professor of pan-African politics at Syracuse University and was an associate professor of political science at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1981-1987. Howard Stein is an associate professor of economics at Roosevelt University in Chicago and was a lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam, 1980-1982.