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The Collapse of the National Road Haulage Company in Tanzania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Ngila Mwase
Ngila Mwase
Affiliation:
Senior Research Fellow, Economic Research Bureau, University of Dar es Salaam
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The post-colonial evolution of the Tanzanian economy has been strongly influenced by public policy, notably since the adoption of the Arusha Declaration in 1967,1 which established the following guidelines:

1. Self-reliance, albeit not self-sufficiency or autarky, since, at least in theory, selected foreign assistance may be the catalyst rather than the basis of development.

2. General social equality, aimed at regional, inter-personal, and rural—urban equity.

3. Socialist and co-operative economic activities, emphasising priority for rural development per se, with a bias towards co-operative work through communal ujamaa villages.

4. Public ownership and control of the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 1985 , pp. 703 - 713
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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page 703 note 1 The Arusha Declaration: TANU's policy of socialism and self-reliance (Dar es Salaam, 1967), p. 3.Google Scholar

page 703 note 2 Clark, W. E., ‘Socialist Development and Public Investment in Tanzania, 1964–73’, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1974, p. 279.Google Scholar

page 704 note 1 No profits or losses were reported for the remaining 51 accounts, either because the relevant institutions were still in an embryonic stage of development, or because the accounts were merely funds created under various statutes. Tanzania Audit Corporation, 15th Annual Report for 1982/83 (Dar es Salaam, 1984).Google Scholar

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page 707 note 1 Source of Tables 1 to 4: calculated and summarised by the author from N.R.H.C. files.

page 709 note 1 Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Works, ‘Report on the Regional Transport Shortages and a Proposal to Expand National Road Haulage Company’, Planning Unit Working Paper, Dar es Salaam, 1972, p. 15.

page 709 note 2 The substantial contribution of the private road-haulage firms has been documented by Mwase, Ngila, ‘The Supply of Road Vehicles in Tanzania: the problem of suppressed demand’, in Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (London), XVIII, 1, 01 1983, pp. 77–89.Google Scholar

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page 711 note 2 Kavana, Elisha, ‘A Short Memorandum on the Present Financial and Operational Problems of NRHC’, London, 1977, p. 3.Google Scholar

page 711 note 3 Cited in Subramanian, V. E., ‘Problems of NRHC’, National Transport Corporation, Dar es Salaam, 1977, p. 2.Google Scholar

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page 713 note 1 The transport sector has been described as the externality industry par excellence. See, for example, Thomson, J., Modern Transport Economics (Harmondsworth, 1974), p. 46,Google Scholar and Bonavia, M. R., The Economics of Transport (Cambridge, 1954 edn.).Google Scholar