| dc.description.abstract | This study contributes to understanding the governance challenges that impact on Tanzania’s future as a petroleum producing state. It considers corruption, which has fuelled insecurity, violence, and poverty in most of the oil producing African nations, as a vulnerability in the energy sector. It therefore examines Tanzania’s policy, legal, and institutional preparedness for overcoming this challenge before its petroleum industry booms. The relevance of this study lies in the fact that, throughout the post-independence period, corruption levels in Tanzania have remained relatively high. The energy sector is one of the economic sectors that has suffered from several grand corruption scandals, particularly the Richmond and the Independent Power Tanzania Limited/Escrow scandals. | en_US |
