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This Policy Paper has analysed trends and features of domestic resource mobilisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper has established that many Sub-Saharan African countries are lagging behind their counterparts in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the OECD. The average tax-to-GDP ratio in SSA is 16.3%,
Various studies have confirmed that the provision of quality education depends very much on, among other factors, the amount of budget allocated for education. Thus, the government of Tanzania has committed itself to investing in education by increasing public spending on the education sector with basic education (pre-primary, primary and
This study assessed the implication of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on tax revenue collection in Tanzania. Specifically, the study sets out to establish the causality of investment in 4IR technologies, on manufacturing industries’ Value Added Tax (VAT); determine the influence of investment in 4IR technologies on manufacturing industries’ Corporate
This paper is the output of the second component of a research study on the institutional analysis of the enterprise economy in Tanzania. The overall objective is to examine the implication of policy developments at the global, regional and national level on enterprise development and competitiveness (EDC). Specifically, the paper
This study seeks to assess and analyse Tanzania’s Government budget and its implementation – and goes on to outline key challenges and best workable recommendations for addressing the challenges identified. The study mainly focuses on a period of the last ten years up to the financial year 2020/2021. READ ON…!
The study presents the various ways through which food vendors around major bus stands in Dar es Salaam cope with stresses resulted from COVID-19 transmission preventive guidelines. Specifically, the study identifies the adopted coping strategies, analyses the effects of the coping strategies opted on the well-being of food vendors. It
The study aims to provide input needed for policy analysis of key Government policies, strategies, and programmes which requires comprehensive data capturing over the entire productive sector of the economy, and for supporting continuous monitoring and evaluation of the dynamic economy. READ ON…!
Using time series data over thirty years’ period (1990-2020) and applying vector autoregressive (VAR) model, this study investigates the impact of infrastructure investment and stock into private capital formation (investment), private capital stock and economic growth in Tanzania. The descriptive statistics shows that, on average, total government expenditure is three
The study analyses how innovative financial instruments can be incorporated into resources mobilisation strategies to finance national development in line with enhancement of effectiveness and efficiency in Public Finance Management in Tanzania. The fundamental question is what is the space for innovative financing instruments in financing development in Tanzania? Innovative
This report proposes a set of recommendations, some of which could be implemented in short-, medium- and long-term basing on the existing legal framework and policies. If these recommendations are implemented, significant gains on decentralisation will result into higher efficiency and effectiveness in delivering services, promote local economic development upholding
This research report examines the political economy in which informal power, political structures, and incentives influence public financial management and accountability (PFMA) reforms, the budget process, and public expenditure in Tanzania. READ ON…!
The study intended to analyse the impact of technology adoption in the production and management of staple foods, particularly maize, and rice, and its corresponding implications on food security, as well as post-harvest losses. The study was motivated by the premise that, although most literature explores the importance of adopting
This study was conducted as a collaboration between REPOA and AidData, a U.S.-based research lab at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute. This research was made possible with generous support from the United States Department of State. The findings and conclusions of this report are those of the authors alone
This study analyses the role of intermediaries in Tanzania’s agricultural exports intensive margins in international markets, using annualized firm level customs transactions data at the HS6-code product level, export mode and by city and destination country from 2010 to 2020. Together with gravity information, this study applies the panel gravity-PPML
This study was conducted to assess the performance of innovation programmes for the effectiveness of agriculture’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The findings of this study showed that most of the innovation centres mandated to support agriculture-related SMEs work in isolation without networking with other organisations. It is recommended that
The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar (RGoZ) is determined to spur industrialization as among the means to meet the Zanzibar Vision 2025 of attaining the “upper middle-income status by the year 2050 through sustainable and inclusive human development1 ” This study aims at supporting such efforts by building a knowledge base
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