ABSTRACT
Economic reforms have come to dominate the development agenda of most countries with ailing economies in the 1980s. In the Third World, economic reforms are mostly concentrated in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, conversely, economic reforms are introduced within a secretive atmosphere. The same economic crisis forced Tanzania to enter into negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for "an extraordinary credit allowing for financing basic industrial imports". Reforms in the agricultural sector can be traced back to the Tanzanian National Agricultural Policy (NAP) of 1982; NAP covered all important aspects of the sector from modes of farming to land tenure to agricultural marketing, pricing, credit, and financing. The operations of the own-foreign-exchange imports can be seen through the increased importation of commodities, such as second-hand clothes and expensive consumer goods. The economic programs presented represent the interests of those who shape the reforms: more liberalization or more state control.
