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The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from TanzaniaDo intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)?...
fiscal capacity intergovernmental grants Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
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...
Health behaviour Malaria School reformWorking Paper
The counting approach to multidimensional poverty: The case of four African countriesThis 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...
Counting approach Multidimensional poverty measurement MalawiWorking Paper
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...
non-farm Enterprise Child-laborWorking Paper
Tanzania—from mining to oil and gas: Structural change or just big numbers?This 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 reso...
Tanzania Gas Liquefied natural gasWorking Paper
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...
Property rights Land titling AgricultureWorking Paper
Household bargaining and spending on children: Experimental evidence from TanzaniaThis 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...
Intra-household allocation Female bargaining power TanzaniaWorking Paper
Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural TanzaniaThe last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries...
Tenure security Smallholders AgribusinessWorking Paper
The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspectiveThis paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population...
forced migration time use labour marketsWorking Paper
Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sectorDespite Tanzania’s rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania’s growth...
Services Informal sector Economic growthPresentation
Third voice of social sciences international conferenceThe University of Dar es Salaam organized on 24-25 November 2016 a two-day conference with the theme 'Industrialization and social transformation: what is the role of social sciences?'
Working Paper
Ideational and institutional drivers of social protection in TanzaniaIn the early 2000s, there was low elite commitment to social protection in Tanzania. Yet, in 2012, the government officially launched a countrywide social safety net programme, and a year later it announced the introduction of an old age pension...
Social protection Policy entrpreneurs Political settlementsPolicy workshop
Development finance - a role for foreign assistanceHas foreign aid boosted economic growth on average in developing countries? How and why is the aid landscape changing? What are the key strategic choices ahead for the development community? These and many other questions were discussed in a policy...
