Features of neo-liberal policies affecting women entrepreneurs in Sweden and Tanzania
| Neo-liberal reforms affecting women’s entrepreneurship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutions | Keywords | Tanzanian translation | Swedish translation |
| Formal institutions | Public-sector retrenchment | Cuts in social welfare (Caplan, 2007; Pallotti, 2008) | New public management (Green-Pedersen, 2007; Berg et al., 2008; Sundin and Tillmar, 2010) Cuts in social welfare (Ginsburg and Rosenthal, 2006) |
| Privatisation | Privatisation of infrastructures such as power, water, telecom, the container terminal and Air Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania, 2005) Privatisation of land (Pallotti, 2008) Opening up for foreign investments (Gibbon, 1995) | Privatisation of infrastructure such as railway, pharmaceuticals, banking, forestry and telecom (Gratzer et al., 2010) Outsourcing to private businesses, customer-choice systems, etc. (Skolverket, 2014; Sundin and Rapp, 2006; Sundin and Tillmar, 2010) | |
| Informal institutions | Entrepreneurialism and individualism | Individual agency and promoted locally (Pallotti, 2008) Individualisation of land rights (Pallotti, 2008) Self-images shaped towards independent and autonomous citizenship (Sigalla and Carney, 2012) | Entrepreneurship in school – fostering the enterprising self (Berglund, 2013) Making women responsible for developing an entrepreneurial persona (Kantola and Outshoorn, 2007) |
| Neo-liberal reforms affecting women’s entrepreneurship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutions | Keywords | Tanzanian translation | Swedish translation |
| Formal institutions | Public-sector retrenchment | ||
| Privatisation | |||
| Informal institutions | Entrepreneurialism and individualism | ||
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