Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms In Africa Theory and Empirical Evidence for Tanzania /

• Main Author: Fischer, Pius V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Economic Policy.; Social Policy.

This book identifies rent-seeking behaviour as one of the main causes of poor economic performance, observed, among other places, in many countries of Africa. Rent-seeking describes the ability to capture incomes without producing output or making a productive contribution. Since rent-seekers are of...

Table of Contents:

• Why Is Rent-Seeking Relevant for Developing Countries and Their Reforms?
• What Is Rent-Seeking?
• Evaluating Rents, Rent-Seeking Investments and Rent-Seeking Costs
• Addressing Fundamentals: Explaining the Motivation for and Success of Rent-Seeking Behaviour and Policies
• Reforms, Rent-Seeking and Rent-Seeking Opposition
• Rent-Seeking: Empirical Evidence for Tanzania
• From Socialist Ideology to Rent-Seeking Reality
• Stabilisation and Structural Adjustment in Tanzania: A Rent-Seeking Approach to Explain Reform Records
• Where Rent-Seekers Seek Rents: Parastatals—Hardliners in a Rent-Seeking Economy
• Conclusions and Policy Recommendations.