Improving the provision of government e-information opportunities in Tanzania
The Internet has the potential to improve public administration, service delivery, and citizen engagement (Castells, 2009; Chadwick, 2006, 2013). In the early 2000s, the Tanzania government adopted online government information provision and established the technical standards and guidelines for government websites in 2014 (United Republic of Tanzania, 2014). E-information stands for provision of information via […]
Learning Environment and Performance of Primary Education in Tanzania
Since independence in 1961, Tanzania declared war against three social enemies, which are ignorance, poverty, and diseases. The fight against ignorance was to succeed by giving special attention to the education sector. Thus, throughout the history of Tanzania, education is regarded a key priority for development that impacts the lives of people (Rajani & Omondi, […]
Healthcare Delivery Environment and Performance in Tanzania
Good health is indispensable towards promoting the well-being of people as well as the nation’s development (World Bank, 2016). Tanzania like many other developing countries has marked health as a priority matter that needs much attention – making the country committed to goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 (Lee & Tarimo, 2018). […]
Taxing the Informal sector: A case of Dar es Salaam street vendors
Recognizing the crucial role that domestic revenue mobilisation plays in financing sustainable development, governments in developing countries have increased interest in taxing informal businesses to increase domestic revenue collections (Joshi & Ayee, 2008). However, the sector is often characterized by unregistered businesses and poor tax administrative systems, resulting in a substantially reduced tax basis.The sector […]
The Global Competitiveness Report: Special Edition 2020
How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery The deep economic recession triggered by COVID-19 continues to have profound economic and social consequences. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, unemployment rates have rapidly increased in most developing and advanced economies, and poverty rates have begun to rise again, reversing the gains achieved over the […]
Designing for differences:aligning incentives in Tanzania’s skills sector
The aim of this paper is twofold. Building on Andreoni (2018), we first aim to evaluate the current incentive structures that cause existing inefficiencies and encourage rule-breaking behaviour. Second, we seek to test empirically a number of institutional design strategies for the sector that would better align the incentives of private- and public-sector stakeholders and […]
Skills Landscape and Sustainability of Youth-led Business Establishments
Youth unemployment has become the biggest development challenge in Tanzania. Young people have few opportunities to learn skills so as to help them start and sustain their established micro and small enterprises and, therefore, the majority of youth-owned enterprises do not survive beyond one year. This research aimed at assessing the youth skills landscape and […]
Are youth moving towards or away from Agriculture?
Analysis of farm and non-farm occupational choices among youth in rural Tanzania The agricultural sector in rural Tanzania is practiced more by elderly people than by the youth. This study examined the determinants of youth occupational choice between farming and non-farming in rural Tanzania. Specifically, the study intended to establish the trend of farming and […]
Taxing the Informal sector: A case of Dar es
Salaam street vendors
The study was conducted in Dar es Salaam city, using three mainindependent methods of data collection that complement eachother: documentary review, in-depth interviews, and FocusGroup Discussions. Purposive sampling technique was applied toobtain a total of twenty (20) street vendors for (4) FGDscomprising five (5) participants each, together with eight (8) keyinformants for in-depth interviews. Fieldwork […]
Healthcare Delivery Environment and
Performance in Tanzania
The purpose of this policy brief is to assess outcomes of primary education and health services. The survey looked at the inputs, commitments and competencies of service providers in these sectors. The survey was conducted in two rounds in 2014 and 2016/17. The two surveys were preceded by a pilot conducted in 2010 in Tanzania […]
Extent and Determinants of Women Participation in Agro-Processing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
The role of women in the promotion of agriculture and industrial development in Tanzania has recently become paramount. The existing studies on the role of women in agriculture sector have dominantly focused on challenges and opportunities and ignored the determinants and extent of their participation in agro-processing sector. This study was therefore set to examine […]
Tanzania’s leather value chain: A review of literature
This paper investigates the leather value chain in Tanzania. Tanzania has large livestock production that potentially provides raw materials for the leather industry but the contribution of the leather industry in the economy is remarkably minimal. Analysis finds that challenges related to inadequate livestock management, limited coordination of downstream and upstream activities, low capacity utilisation […]
Assessment of the Impact of Institutional Reforms on Mobilization of Property Tax Revenues.
Property taxation in Tanzania is one among sources that the government can potentially and largely use to widen its tax base and increase revenue collection. Being directly visible to taxpayers, by design it is relatively easier from the taxpayers’ perspective to easily link the collected revenue to improved provision of local services. Thus, property tax […]
REPOA Annual Report 2019
We are privileged to present to our esteemed stakeholders our annual report for 2019, the final year of the implementation of our fourth strategic plan, covering 2015–2019.
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Technology and Opportunity in Rural Tanzania
This paper explores the processes of economic change in rural Tanzania. It investigates some of the factors that have contributed to the adoption of innovations in economic practice in Ulanga District, Morogoro Region, since the 1990s.1 Understanding the factors which contribute to innovation is important for understanding how actual change occurs in rural areas. It […]
24th ARW Synthesizing Report
Tanzania has achieved sustained rates of economic growth for the past ten years and is moving towards middle income status. Maintaining these gains while ensuring that development is inclusive is a core objective of the second National Five-Year Development Plan which places industrialisation as the key pillar of national development strategy.