Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms In Africa

1. Introduction

Part I. Why Is Rent-Seeking Relevant for Developing Countries and Their Reforms?

2. What Is Rent-Seeking?

3. Evaluating Rents, Rent-Seeking Investments and Rent-Seeking Costs

4. Addressing Fundamentals: Explaining the Motivation for and Success of Rent-Seeking Behaviour and Policies

5. Reforms, Rent-Seeking and Rent-Seeking Opposition

Part II. Rent-Seeking: Empirical Evidence for Tanzania

6. From Socialist Ideology to Rent-Seeking Reality

7. Stabilisation and Structural Adjustment in Tanzania: A Rent-Seeking Approach to Explain Reform Records

8. Where Rent-Seekers Seek Rents: Parastatals—Hardliners in a Rent-Seeking Economy

9. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

Avainsanat: Economics/Management Science, Development Economics, Economic Policy, Social Policy