National pay policy and economic instability in Tanzania

In an attempt to understand the relationship between an appropriate pay posture, a countrys socio-economic objectives and its concrete economic conditions, the author analyses the role of national pay policy in earnings and wage employment trends and the growth of economic instability in Africa with special reference to Tanzania. Sections: introduction – the period of substantial real earnings increases: 1962-1967 – towards pay restraint and the eradication of income inequality: national pay after the Arusha Declaration – pay policy and price instability: 1972-1976 – conclusion. – French sum. p. 222, graph., notes, tab.