The Irrelevance of Ideology in the Public Sector: A Comparison of Kenya and Tanzania

Jeffrey James
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Jeffrey James: Tilburg University

Chapter 3 in The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa, 1995, pp 47-84 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 1 drew attention to the similarity in the technological behaviour of public enterprises in the industrial sector of various African countries. This observation is striking because it does not conform to what one might have expected on the basis of the highly disparate development strategies that were adopted in countries such as Kenya and Tanzania. One might have expected instead that the capitalistic orientation of the former and the (African) socialism espoused in the latter would have produced a correspondingly diverse pattern of technological behaviour on the part of the public enterprises concerned. For, to the extent that these enterprises can be considered as being essentially an extension, or ‘creature* of the state, their technological behaviour ought presumably to reflect the divergent goals of the countries they represent.

Keywords: Public Sector; Sugar Industry; Public Enterprise; National Goal; Product Choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230377196_4

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