Putting Cooperative Development in Urban Development Agenda: An Analysis and Lessons from Co-operative Reform and Modernization Program Implementation Intervention with Case Reality in Tanzania
Cooperative development in Tanzania and elsewhere in the world has been a vehicle for improving livelihoods of the residents in both urban and rural settings. It has a historical movements trend from agriculture crop productivity, marketing and value additions needs and movements, which in most developing countries required joint efforts and partnership in its operations for member based benefits in sustainable urban development agenda. Management of these cooperative societies as a vehicle for poverty reduction has been facing various challenges including but not limited to corruption, policy and legal setting as well as institutional structure and systems in place, which among others necessitate many developing countries to have cooperative reform programme to redress the situation, Tanzania inclusive. This paper therefore is centered on documenting factors constraining co-operatives reform and modernization program implementation in Tanzania, which pave the way of putting cooperative development in urban development agenda in view to poverty reduction, institutional and systems development as well as empowerment needs. It examines the case of Kalali Women Dairy Co-operative Society Ltd in Hai District Council to evidence the need. It analyses the co-operative reform awareness among co-operative members. Similarly, highlights the type of services offered by the society as well as factors hindering the implementation of co-operative reform and modernization program. The paper wind up by establishing prospects for future implementation modalities and required capacity for improvement, thus contributing to poverty reduction and meeting the interest of co-operative movement, needs, principles and therefore becomes an integral part of urban development agenda in Tanzania. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA
Human Capital Deprivation and Its Contribution to Multidimensional Poverty: Access through Rural Organisations in Nyakagabagaba, South-Western Uganda
This study elaborates how human capital deprivation contributes to the overall multidimensional poverty in Nyakagabagaba and how rural dwellers in the study area belonging to rural organisations (members) access or accumulate human capital desired for their livelihood through the cooperatives and associations they belong to while nonmembers gain access to the needed human capital components through the spillover effects created by rural organisations' function, purposes and services provided. The relationship between perceived rural organisation influence in access to human capital component and the condition (deprived or nondeprived) of human capital components is studied to establish the significance of rural organisations in accessing or accumulating on the components of human capital. Findings show that rural organisations enhance access to human capital, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty. Keywords: Rural organisations; human capital; multidimensional poverty; livelihoods; cooperatives; associations
Did the metamorphosis from Export Processing Zones to Special Economic Zones improve the efficiency of trade enclaves in India?
In this paper, the efficiency of seven conventional Special Economic Zones in India is analyzed, by adopting a stochastic production frontier technique, for the period between 1986–1987 and 2007–2008.Results indicate that although the efficiency scores of these enclaves have improved over the years, specifically with the introduction of the SEZ policy (2000–2001), it is far below the threshold level as identified in the literature. Besides, one can also observe a discrepancy emerging between better export earning zones and efficient zones. On the determinants side, policy intervention and large geographical area, accompanied by clustering of units, are found to have impacted the efficiency scores of these enclaves positively.