The recent debate on the consequences of structural adjustment for developing economies, which took place between the World Bank and the United Nation's Economic Commission on Africa, underlines the need for further investigation of this important economic strategy. Tanzania, which for a decade had stood as a symbol of opposition to the Internation

Horace Campbell is a professor of pan-African politics at Syracuse University and was an associate professor of political science at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1981-1987. Howard Stein is an associate professor of economics at Roosevelt University in Chicago and was a lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam, 1980-1982.