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Tanzania—from mining to oil and gasThis paper extends UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2016/79, which examined the economic situation in Tanzania during the resurgence of gold and diamond production after 1999, with the situation that emerged as the country began to exploit its very large...
Journal Article
The counting approach to multidimensional povertyPart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in childrenThis paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes...
Journal Article
The impact of hosting refugees on the intra‐household allocation of tasksPart of Journal Special Issue Female Autonomy and Women’s Welfare
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The effects of land titling in TanzaniaWe use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of...
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The counting approach to multidimensional povertyThis paper investigates the levels and evolution of poverty in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe using the decomposability properties of poverty measures based on a counting approach. We compare poverty measures such as the Alkire and Foster...
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Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children’s malarial status in TanzaniaIn this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women’s malaria preventive behaviour, as well as children’s risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by...
Journal Article
The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan AfricaDo intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a well-established body of literature in public finance, which argues that intergovernmental grants “crowd out” local revenues. Most...
Book Chapter
Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sectorPart of Book Industries without Smokestacks
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Weather shocks and child nutritionIn this paper, we examine the relationship between childhood exposure to adverse weather shocks and nutritional and health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather shocks, we...
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A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development GoalsThe objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe integrate the Sustainable Development Goals in their implementation and operations. We focused on four Sustainable...
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Mobile phone use, productivity and labour market in TanzaniaAccess to mobile phone has increased substantially over the last decade in sub-Saharan Africa. The evidence suggests that increased use of mobile phones in the region has upgraded the market prices received by producers for their cash crops, but so...
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Household bargaining and spending on childrenThis paper studies whether increasing the wife’s bargaining power results in couples allocating more resources to their child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are. We conduct a novel between-subject lab experiment in Tanzania, in...
Blog
Promoting industrialization in Africa: Global versus regional value chainsAs COVID-19 ravages international trade and production, policy-makers are shifting their sights from global value chains (GVCs) to regional value...
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Long-run rural livelihood diversification in Kagera, TanzaniaWhat drives livelihood diversification among predominantly rural households in developing countries and how can welfare-enhancing patterns be established and sustained in the long run? A large literature has focused on whether income diversification...
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Constraints on the performance and competitiveness of Tanzania’s manufacturing exportsThis study sought to examine the main constraints to manufacturing export competitiveness in Tanzania. Using panel data for the period 1997–2018, the study established that supply-side factors dominate demand-side factors in explaining manufacturing...
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