Browsing by Author "Pelizzo, Riccardo"

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    The Cost of Party System Change: The Case of Tanzania
    (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017) Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim; Pelizzo, Riccardo
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    The Costs of Party System Change: The Case of Tanzania
    (SelectedWorks, 2015-08-21) Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim
    As Tanzanians prepare to go to the polls and the country awaits an election that could mark the end of the CCM rule, potentially ushering in dramatic change in the Tanzanian party system, analysing the relationship between the changeability of the Tanzanian party system and the various aspects of the Tanzanian democracy is both timely and valuable. This is so for at least two reasons. First, such an analysis provides a basis for assessing whether and to what extent the political consequences of party system change in Tanzania are similar to the observations made by Nwokora and Pelizzo (2015) for the South East Asian region. By doing so, we are also able to make a contribution to the comparative study of the consequences of party system change—a topic which, as Nwokora and Pelizzo (2015) reported, has not been adequately covered in the literature. Secondly, such an analysis can also enable us to make some tentative, but educated, guesses as to what may happen in Tanzania if, as many observers have repeatedly predicted, the Presidential elections of next October mark the end of the CCM’s rule.
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    A Functionalist Theory of Oversight
    (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017) Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo; Umar, A
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    Governance in Africa
    (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017) Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel
    Good governance matters. Or at least this is what scholars and practitioners have been saying for nearly twenty years. The studies included in this volume are devoted to developing a better understanding of governance and good governance in Africa, its causes, its consequences and the ways in which good governance can be enhanced in the region. In doing so some attention is paid to how African problems can be addressed and possibly resolved by African solutions.
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    Growth, Employment, Poverty and Inequality in Tanzania
    (Africology: Journal of Pan African Studies, 2018-02) Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo
    This paper shows that in Tanzania, economic growth contributes to job creation and employment opportunities, however, it does very little to curb income inequality. Using official data from various local sources compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics and international the paper provides an explanation for why the creation of wealth and employment opportunities in Tanzania fails to bring the level of poverty to a level roughly comparable to what is found in the region to reduce inequality between the richer and the poorer segments of society.
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    Making Tourism Work for Tanzania.
    (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018) Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel
    The tourism industry in Tanzania has experienced an extraordinary growth over the years. The success of the industry is hardly surprising. Few destinations worldwide can compete with what Tanzania has to offer. But tourism is a very competitive industry. Destinations rise and decline. The tourism hot spots of the 1950s were entirely forgotten by the would. The top destinations of the late would had fallen into oblivion by the end of 1990s. Some destinations that enjoyed some considerable success at the beginning of the new millennium had already been supplanted by the beginning of the 2010s. It is in this context that Tanzania's tourism industry has to be shaped in a manner that can withstand such cyclic eventuality. "Making Tourism Work for Tanzania" is a book that offers recommendations that could help the industry not only grow sustainable but also become beneficial to all Tanzanians.
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    Public Accounts Committees in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis
    (Politics and Policy, 2014) Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo
    This article provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from Eastern and Southern Africa building on the work of McGee, Jacobs, Stapenhurst, and Staddon. By analyzing an original set of data, this article shows that PACs in these two regions are bigger, have more staff members, and are more likely to be chaired by opposition Members of Parliament than they have in other countries and regions. Furthermore, the data show that Eastern and Southern African PACs are more active than their counterparts elsewhere. However, lack of political will and limits to the range of powers that they enjoy as well as the dearth of quality technical support from parliamentary staff significantly undermines the effectiveness of these committees and their ability to play a greater role in curbing corruption.
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    Strengthening parliaments: Some lessons from the Pacific Region
    (Politics and Policy, 2013) Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo
    There is universal agreement among development stakeholders that parliaments play a crucial role in enhancing good governance, economic growth, and development as well as the general quality of democracy. It follows from this fact that several international organizations (IOs) have embarked in activities that seek to strengthen legislative capacity. However, we note that there is a lack of consensus—among IOs and in key literature—on the right approach to strengthen parliaments.Consequently, IOs have been offering varying legislative-strengthening exercises that have inevitably produced significantly different and, at times, disappointing outcomes. Using a multicase study design that includes five Pacific countries, we show that to attain positive and significant outcomes, legislative capacity-building initiatives need to be country specific and informed by local needs assessment. We further reassert that no amount of legislative capacity-building effort can enhance parliamentary performance in the absence of local political will.
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    Tourism in Africa. Development and inequality
    (Prospero Editore, 2017) Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel
    Tourism industry has experienced a massive growth at the global level over the past two decades. The growth of the tourism sector has been faster in Africa than in the world as a whole. Given its rapid growth and its increasing importance, scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and tourism professionals have started paying increasing attention to Africa. This book seeks to provide yet another opportunity for Africa's tourism sector to be better understood particularly in the context of how it can aid development and reduce inequality.
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    Tourism, development, and inequality: The case of Tanzania
    (Poverty and Public Policy, 2015) Kinyondo, Abel; Pelizzo, Riccardo
    For most of the post-WWII era, scholars have attempted to understand, define, and measure development. A large and growing body of work has in fact investigated its causes and the consequences and has dissented as to whether tourism represents a proper determinant of growth and development. Yet, while scholars have started investigating the contribution that tourism can make to economic growth and development from the 1970s onward, considerably less attention has been paid to assessing whether tourism-induced growth is pro-poor or not—that is, whether tourism-induced growth and development contribute to the reduction of poverty and income inequality. Building on data collected from several institutional sources and on the insights gathered in the course of several interviews with the officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, we wish to investigate the relationship between the development of the tourism industry, economic development, employment and income inequality in Tanzania.