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.
The recent debate on the consequences of structural adjustment for developing economies, which took place between the World Bank and the United Nation's Economic Commission on Africa, underlines the need for further investigation of this important economic strategy. Tanzania, which for a decade had stood as a symbol of opposition to the Internation
