Designing for differences:
aligning incentives in Tanzania’s skills sector
Since the introduction of the Skills Development Levy (SDL) in Tanzania, the financing of skills training has been contested. The private sector has raised concerns about the size of the levy and the usefulness of training provided by VET centres, and has accused the government of misallocation and misuse of the raised levy. Lack of […]
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 […]
Enhancing Competitiveness of Horticultural Industry in Tanzania
This policy brief analyzes recent trends in horticultural production and trade in Tanzania. It aims to appraise contemporary understandings of market dynamics which are key to informing competitive trade policy practices as well as implementation of Tanzania’s third Five-Year Development Plan 2021/22 – 2025/26 which prioritizes the development of a competitive economy and the transformation […]
The effects of institutional bottlenecks on
enterprise development and competitiveness in
productive sectors in Tanzania
This policy brief flags areas of crucial policy concerns in the context of the prevailing legal and regulatory framework for enterprise development and competitiveness. It draws on analyses and findings from REPOA’s Research Project on Institutional Analysis of Enterprise Development and Competitiveness (EDC) in Tanzania. The research draws on analyses of primary and secondary data […]
Social Protection in Tanzania: Challenges in the
shift of financing PSSN from external funding to
government
Tanzania is one of several developing countries committed to a nation-wide social protection through its flagship programme, the Productive Social safety Net (PSSN), implemented since 2012. This policy brief attempts to explore the challenges behind the shifting in the responsibility of financing PSSN from external funding to the government. Specifically, this policy brief focuses on […]
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.
Presidential Term
Limits and Regime
Types: When Do
Leaders Respect
Constitutional Norms?
This article is proposing a regime-oriented approach to explain the variation on the African continent. Democracies, party-based regimes, and military regimes are surely different from each other, but they have a degree of depersonalisation in common that is not found in personalist regimes. For the latter type, term limits are a question of regime survival.Personalist […]
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 […]
Time Allocation on Productive and Domestic Work: The Unintended Consequence of Cash Transfers on Women’s Workload
The purpose of this policy brief is to simplify the analysis and summarise the key findings on the domain of time and their policy-related implication and recommendation. The summary will help readers, including policymakers, to grasp key policy messages, implication, and recommendation to further gender transformation initiatives.
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, […]