But in Tanzania a local forestry taxation and licensing system ended up raising barriers to entry for the poorest timber and charcoal producers, making them more dependent on town-based traders and powerful village leaders.Projects that boost local oversight of services can work.
"We are entirely dependent on the town now for our food," Ms. Kanno said.
There are hundreds of monocities — company towns dependent on one enterprise — without a future.
"One thing we've always worried about with regard to Cigna is the diversity issue," Ms. McMahon said, referring to the town being so dependent on one company for tax revenue and jobs.
Of such rumors, of course, can come many things, especially in a town dependent on tourism.
San Diego, a town dependent on its naval base for its prosperity, features regular troop acknowledgments at games, and Padres players take the field in camouflage uniforms.
Residents in Chester are fighting a proposed Dollar General store, on the grounds that it will mar the quaint nature of a town dependent on tourism.
Tony Kennon, the mayor of Orange Beach, a coastal town dependent on tourism, said that meeting with Mr. Feinberg was worse than seeing the dentist.
Cheyenne gradually retreated to its roots as a wind-blown provincial town, dependent on a cold war-era missile base and on Wyoming's tiny state government for jobs.
The travelling musicians wind up in a desert town, dependent on the mercy and generosity of Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), the owner of a local café, who feeds them and finds them places to sleep.
During the German occupation of Norway during World War II, the German Wehrmacht was dependent on supplies to the town of Kirkenes which had to be shipped past Varanger Peninsula.
