Tax Capacity and Effort in Tanzania
This policy brief explores on tax capacity and effort in Tanzania. The brief has it that Tanzania is utilizing less than half its potential tax capacity. Not only does the income tax category has more potential than the other tax categories but also has the lowest effort in tax revenue collection. It also underscores that […]
The Performance of Tax Revenues in Tanzania: An attempt at explanation
This policy brief explores on the Performance of Tax Revenues in Tanzania. The brief has it that the performance of Tanzania’s Tax revenue collection is below the recorded averages in Sub- Saharan Africa, SADC, and East Africa. Income tax and VAT jointly contribute around two-thirds of the country’s tax revenues. It also explores that the […]
Should Tanzania be concerned about its budget deficit?
This policy brief explores on Tanzania’s budget deficit as it rose 15-fold from TZS 0.4 trillion to TZS 6 trillion between 1999/00 and 2020/21. The brief has it that generally, the budget deficit has been financially manageable as the country’s debt service has not exceeded the economy’s ability to continuously fund it. However, the consequences […]
Household’s perceptions on the discoveries of natural gas in Lindi and Mtwara
This policy brief explores on the household’s perceptions on the discoveries of natural gas in Lindi and Mtwara. It depicts that large deposits of natural gas were discovered off the southern coast of Tanzania and almost half of the households in the two regions are aware of the gas discoveries. It further shows that households […]
The EU-EAC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) – Economic and Development Cooperation, and Targeted Benefits
This is the fifth of a five-part series of policy briefs presenting findings of a research study on the “Implications of EU-EAC EPA on Tanzania”. The study is part of the broader research and capacity building project ‘Targeted support to strengthen capacity of policy makers, exporters, and trade associations to assess and review trade and […]
Mapping export status changes and firm productivity: Evidence from EAC countries
This study tests whether firms in the EAC that supply in the foreign markets are in line with the learning by exporting hypothesis, in view of the differing performance indicators between exporters and non-exporters in these economies.The data for this study is constructed from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for four EAC countries (Tanzania, Kenya, […]
Export promotion and farmers’ welfare impact: Evidence from common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L) farming in Arusha, Tanzania
The results of this study suggest that common beans’ farmers in Tanzania are aware of significant role of exporting their crop than trading locally. Results further suggest that different factors such as age of a farmer, household size, other business, access to extension and contract farming are likely to influence the decision of farmers to […]
Export performance of the horticultural sub-sector in Tanzania
Horticultural sub-sector in Tanzania has been characterized by sustained growth over the years. But there has been slow growth rate in horticultural exports over the last decade. In this regard, knowledge of the determinants of the industry’s development is very important. Little attempt was made to examine factors influencing the export performance of the sub-sector. […]
Competitiveness of Tanzania’s exports: A constant market share analysis
Tanzania export sector has been growing over the years. The market share of Tanzania increased by 0.29% to 0.08% in EAC and SSA from Period I to Period II respectively. This performance of exports may have been attributed by increased/decreased competitiveness or increased/decreased structural factors such as world trade, focal markets of their products and […]
The EU-EAC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) FISHERIES—Inland Fisheries, Coastal and Aquaculture Development
This is the fourth of a five-part series of policy briefs presenting findings of a research study on the “Implications of EU-EAC EPA on Tanzania”. The study is part of the broader research and capacity building project ‘Targeted support to strengthen capacity of policy makers, exporters, and trade associations to assess and review trade and […]
Bargaining Strategies in recent tax reforms in Tanzania
The authors’ motivation for this research and so this Working Paper was on their conceptualisation of revenue bargaining as it hones in on political dynamics whereby the interests and power of members of government and of different revenue providers take center stage. A political settlement approach that conceptualises political dynamics fitting both democratic and non-democratic […]
The Demand and Supply of Political Campaign Financing in Tanzania and Uganda During the 2010s
Campaign financing is defined as money and other resources used by parties and candidates during primary, parliamentary, or presidential elections to secure nomination and election to political office. In this paper, we develop a demand-supply framework for analysing and understanding such financing in newly democratising poor countries, exemplified by Tanzania and Uganda. Like other African […]
Trade complementarities between Europe and Tanzania
This research aimed at studying the movements in comparative advantage of Tanzanian exports and identifying opportunities for trade with Europe. Comparative advantage is measured using Balassa’s index and Volrath Index as robustness check. Additionally, trends in intra-industry trade between Tanzania and the world and with Sub-Saharan Africa is measured using Grubel-Loyd Index. All the products […]
Analysis of the livelihood aspects of the seaweed value chain in Zanzibar
This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union, through the EU-ACP TradeCom II Programme, as part of the Targeted support to strengthen capacity of policymakers, exporters, and trade associations to assess and review trade and related economic policies to promote trade competitiveness and diversification for widening trading opportunities with the EU” […]
The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Openness on the Firms Export Competitiveness and Products Diversification among East African Community Members
This study examines the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and trade openness on a firm’s export competitiveness and diversification among East African Community (EAC) members. Unlike previous studies, we investigated this issue to emerging region of EAC. The study uses traditional panel methods of fixed and random effect for the sample period 2010–2019. On […]
Finance and African development – dynamics and underlying debt risks
This policy brief looks at the Least Developed Countries—32 African countries classified by the UN as LDCs, whereas the rest are classified as either Lower Middle-Income Countries or Middle-Income Countries. It looks at the Gradual graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) category as being constrained by lower incomes, social and health challenges, and limited finances […]