Neoliberalism, economic crisis, and domestic coffee marketing in Tanzania

Kessy, Ambrose T.

dc.creator	Kessy, Ambrose T.
dc.date	2020-08-25T12:54:38Z
dc.date	2020-08-25T12:54:38Z
dc.date	2020
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-06T13:13:50Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-06T13:13:50Z
dc.identifier	Kessy, A. T. (2020). Neoliberalism, economic crisis, and domestic coffee marketing in Tanzania. In the palgrave handbook of African political economy (pp. 399-412). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2426
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2426
dc.description	Abstract. Full-text Book Chapter available at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-38922-2_21
dc.description	This chapter presents an analysis of the economic crisis of neoliberalism with a focus on the growth of the coffee industry in Tanzania. It explicates the economic and political crises of neoliberalism with a focus on the transformation of coffee industry and the reproduction of weak cooperative societies in Tanzania as opposed to the predictions of dispersal of the political and economic power of neoliberal transitions. At the center of this analysis is the critical issue regarding the effects of neoliberal policies on the rural economy, taking the coffee industry as a case study. The chapter first looks at the commencement of the private marketing and charts the transformation of the coffee industry in Tanzania. An extensive body of literature has shown that for the past few years the government of Tanzania has initiated some interventions in the country’s coffee industry, all aimed at fighting the grain of neoliberal market reform. The chapter then explains the impact of the subsequent economic crisis in Tanzania, which resulted in the decline of the coffee sector. It also describes these changes and locates them in the broader literature on neoliberal reforms in Tanzania and how neoliberal policies have affected cooperatives which were once the key agents for coffee marketing. The chapter concludes by showing how neoliberal crises in the form of economic crisis can create opportunities for reassessing the relationship between private capital and the state capital in revamping the coffee sector. Thus, exports of coffee contribute hugely to the growth of the Tanzanian economy.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Springer Nature
dc.subject	Economic crisis
dc.subject	Neoliberalism
dc.subject	Coffee industry
dc.subject	Coffee
dc.subject	Political crises
dc.subject	Economic power
dc.subject	Rural economy
dc.subject	Domestic coffee
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.subject	Coffee sector
dc.subject	Cooperative societies
dc.subject	Tanzanian economy
dc.title	Neoliberalism, economic crisis, and domestic coffee marketing in Tanzania
dc.type	Book chapter