Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:An agenda for sustainable growth of non-traditional exports in Tanzania
Author:Bagachwa, M.S.D.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Tanzanian Economic Trends
Volume:5
Issue:3-4
Pages:41-51
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:trade policy
exports
Abstract:The issue of diversification of Tanzania's export base is crucial. In 1991 the six traditional crops - coffee, cotton, sisal, tea, tobacco and cashew nuts - accounted for 55 percent of the total merchandise export earnings. Generally speaking, prices for these primary products have been severely unstable. Moreover, the promotion of most traditional exports is associated with relatively limited technological dynamism. If the restructuring process initiated in 1986 with the adoption of the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) is to bring about sustainable development it should emphasize the diversification of traditional primary exports into the technologically more dynamic sector of nontraditional crops and manufactured exports. Under these circumstances it is clear that exporting constitutes an essential element in Tanzania's economic progress. The author discusses the key factors to successful exporting of nontraditional exports in Tanzania. These are an appropriate macropolicy environment, a firm infrastructural base, skilled human capital with the right mix and stock of technological capabilities, reasonably sufficient and stable markets, a range of potentially exportable products in which the country has a comparative advantage, and the availability of trade credit. Bibliogr.
Views