Building productive capacities – opportunities and constraints in the cashew nut sub-sector
This policy brief provides a framework of analysis on building productive capacities in Tanzania – regarding opportunities and constraints in the cashew nut sub-sector. This brief seeks to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in the public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth, industrial development, investments, trade expansion, private sector development, and […]
Building productive capacities – opportunities and constraints in the tea sub-sector
This policy brief provides a framework of analysis on building productive capacities in Tanzania – regarding opportunities and constraints in the tea sub-sector. This brief seeks to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in the public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth, industrial development, investments, trade expansion, private sector development, and providing […]
Status of the Transition to a Nature-Positive Green Economy in Tanzania
REPOA would like to extend its sincere gratitude for the financial support provided by the Green Economy Coalition (GEC) secretariat in London through ACODE to develop this working paper. The work presented in this paper has been funded by the MAVA Foundation through the Economics for Nature (E4N) programme. This paper assesses the status of […]
Building productive capacities in Tanzania – opportunities and constraints in the coffee sub-sector
This policy brief provides a framework of analysis on building productive capacities in Tanzania – regarding opportunities and constraints in the coffee sub-sector. This brief seeks to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth; agriculture and cooperative development; investments, trade, and industrial development; private sector […]
Harnessing the continental opportunities for enhancing productive capacities in Tanzania
This policy brief provides a framework of analysis regarding harnessing the continental opportunities for enhancing productive capacities in Tanzania. It seeks to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth, industrial development, investments, trade expansion, and private sector development. It is the ability these actors to […]
Participation in regional and global value chains can enhance productive capacity for industrial and trade expansion
This policy brief provides a framework of analysis regarding the participation in regional and global value chains to enhance productive capacity for industrial and trade expansion. It seeks to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth, industrial development, investments, trade expansion, and private sector development. […]
Drivers of productive capacity for industrial and trade expansion in Tanzania
This policy brief provides a framework of analysis seeking to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth, industrial development, investments, trade expansion, and private sector development. It is the ability these actors to address the various constraints to productivity growth that Tanzania can sustain its […]
Trade, Productivity and competitiveness
This policy brief aims at assessing the trade development and competitiveness of Tanzania by assessing the productivity of its firms against the background of further integration into the East African Community (EAC). The note addresses both the export premium of an internationalization strategy, the opportunities for specialization within the EAC and the impact of the […]
Productivity premia and firm heterogeneity in Eastern Africa
The gap between national export premium and foreign-ownership premium is stronger in manufacturing firms as opposed to service sectors. Moreover, we find clear and strong productivity premia in size, training programmes and level of development in the manufacturing firms. In the services sector, these premia are always smaller and only significant for medium-sized firms. There […]
Uwezeshaji wa Wananawake Kwenye Uzalishaji,Utafutaji wa Kipato, Umiliki wa Raslimali na Uongozi KupitiaMpango wa Kukuza Uwezo wa Kaya Maskini (PSSN)
Kitabu kinachohusu Uwezeshaji wa Wanawake Tanzania kama sehemu ya Sera za Kudumisha Ustawi wa Jamii (Empowering Women in Tanzania in the Contexts of Contemporary Social Policy) kimetolewa na REPOA kwa madhumuni ya kutoa uchambuzi wa kisera, matukio na taasisi ambazo ni sehemu ya mihimili ya jitihada za serikali za kuwawezesha wanawake Tanzania. Dokezo hili linatoa […]
Uwiano Kati ya Aina ya Kazi, Taarifa Kuhusu Kazi,Stadi za Kazi, na Elimu
Kwenye dokezo hili tunanatoa muhstasari mfupi wa sura mbali mbali zilizopo kwenye kitabu kiitwacho ‘Youth Transition from School to Work: A Case Study of VETA in Tanzania (Kipindi cha Mpito kwa Vijana Kati ya Mafunzo na Ajira: Mchango wa VETA Tanzania), chenye lengo la kuongeza uelewa wa matatizo wanayopitia vijana kwenye jitihada zao za kutafuta […]
The Work, Information, Skills and Education Nexus in the Transition from School to Work
This brief summarises the theoretical chapters in the book on Youth Transition from School to Work: A Case Study of VETA in Tanzania whose aim is to increase understanding about the barriers to youth employment and transition to work in the context of Tanzania’s new industrialization drive. The brief concentrates on key factors that influence […]
Women empowerment in production, income generation, Access to Resources and Leadership
This brief summarises results from a study that assessed the extent to which social assistance offered by TASAF through the PSSN contributes to the empowerment of women in terms of increasing their economic, political and social influence on their lives, their households and their communities.
Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment
on corruption in Tanzania
Although there seems to be a consensus that a resource curse often exists (with the notable exceptions of Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) and van der Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010)), the empirical literature faces greater challenges in establishing why natural resource wealth is often associated with undesirable outcomes, because cross-country comparisons are plagued with endogeneity issues […]
Youth Transformation from School to Work in Tanzania
A Case Study of the Vocational Education and Training in Tanzania (VETA) The economic downturn and declining social sector performance in the period 1980-1995 have substantially influenced the debate on skills supply and demand in Tanzania. The downturn saw a substantial decline in the key skills indicator of literacy that had reached a high of […]
Empowering Women in Tanzania
IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY REFORMS The policy focus on women empowerment has gathered traction lately partly as a result of encouraging the growth of the world economy, a renewed focus on inequality, and the initial success of large-scale income and livelihoods social programmes. Efforts aiming at empowerment have largely been distributional, characterised […]