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Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on examining Tanzanian health policies through a gender lensThe Innovation, Knowledge and Development ( IKD ) group of The Open University organises a one-day webinar on International Women's Day. The topic of the webinar is Health and care at the crossroads: evidencing gender impacts, campaigning for...
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Determinants of domestic savings in Tanzania: Empirical evidenceThis paper examines trends and determinants of gross domestic savings in Tanzania using data for the period 1990–2020. The autoregressive distributed lag approach is employed to empirically analyse the short-run and long-run relationships...
Domestic savings Saving TanzaniaWorking Paper
The link between public debt and public investment in TanzaniaIn a bid to realize its development aspirations, Tanzania has made concerted efforts to increase public investment, particularly in the last decade...
Public investments Tanzania Public debtWorking Paper
Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in TanzaniaExpansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context...
Informal sector Tanzania Social policyWorking Paper
Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future pathsTanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities...
Social protection Tanzania WomenWorking Paper
Employment policy in Mainland Tanzania: what’s in it for women?Tanzania has experienced relatively strong and stable economic growth accompanied by social stability over the past two decades. The country is also pursuing an ambitious development plan with significant employment objectives...
Employment policy Gender WomenProject workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in TanzaniaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held in-person between UNU-WIDER and the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) in Dar es Salaam 9 May...
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Exploring social policy trajectories in Mainland Tanzania: Driving for gender-inclusive development?In July 2020, the United Republic of Tanzania gained the status of a lower-middle-income country. This came after two decades of significant social policy reforms and transformations in the country’s economic structures...
Social policy Gender TanzaniaWorking Paper
The Tanzanian state response to COVID-19: Why low capacity, discursive legitimacy, and twilight authority matterTanzania received significant global attention for its COVID-19 response during the first year of the pandemic...
Tanzania Nationalism State authorityWorking Paper
Two decades of Tanzanian health policy: Examining policy developments and opportunities through a gender lensTanzania has undertaken important health sector reforms in the new millennium, and the most recent Health Sector Strategic Plan (2021–26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage...
Tanzania Women HealthAbout
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons from TanzaniaThis project analyses administrative tax data in Tanzania to provide knowledge for better policy-making with respect to mobilizing public revenue for inclusive economic development. The project conducts new, policy-relevant research based on the...
Tax administration data TanzaniaSeminar
Samwel J. Kabote and Jires Tunguhole on the determinants of clove exports in ZanzibarSamwel J. Kabote and Jires Tunguhole give a presentation on 10 December at 10-11am (UTC+2) as part of the Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs project. The presentation is held as a webinar,...
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Ending aid dependency: Taxation in developing countries can be improved through collaborationFinland aims to raise the amount of its development assistance to 0.7% of GDP, and this goal has good grounds. But how can we make sure that the countries receiving the donor funding will not stay dependent on the external aid for a long time?...
Tax compliance Tanzania Tax administrationWorkshop
Fourth training on TAZMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for TanzaniaAs part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with UNU-WIDER, and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights ( SASPRI ) organizes a training event on the TAZMOD model. This fourth training...
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Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in TanzaniaThe virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in...