Table A2.

Examples of reforms and policies affecting women entrepreneurs in Tanzania

Before 19901990s2000s2010s
Structural Adjustment Programmes launchedTrade liberalisation aIndividualisation of Land Rights (1999) (from village land to investors’ land) bLocal Government Reform Programme (LGRP) cKilimo Kwanza (agriculture first), including amendments to Land Act to facilitate private investment dBig Results Now, increased focus on an investor’s lens eThe Mining Act (2010) and the Petroleum Act (2015), Return of the state (?) f
 Opening for foreign investments g Privatisation of infrastructure hNational strategy for growth and reduction of poverty (NSGRP), 2005 iLocal promotion of individual agency j 
   Property and business formalisation programme, MKURABITA (2004) kPublic-private partnership as the new development order (after Davos 2008) l  

Notes:aGibbon (1995). bPallotti (2008) and Engström, 2018 cThis included neo-liberal citizenship model and cuts in social welfare (Caplan, 2007; Pallotti 2008). dPrivate sector heavily involved in large-scale investments in agriculture (Cooksey, 2012; Sikora et al., 2017; Engström, 2018). eEngström, (2018). fJacob Pedersen Maganga and Kweka (2016). These institutional changes are not neo-liberal but may rather indicate a turning of the tide. That is, however, not yet certain and outside the scope of this paper. gGibbon (1995). hChristen et al., (2005). iPallotti (2008). The strategy involves social inclusion, but still as a “natural” result of economic growth. jPallotti (2008). kPallotti (2008). lGreen, 2015 and Engström, (2018) 

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