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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...
Presentation
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...
Presentation
Ayu Pratiwi and Milla Nyyssölä on land rights and inter-generational resource allocations in TanzaniaOn 17 November 2021 Turku University researcher Ayu Pratiwi and UNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research . The topic of their presentation is...
Research Brief
Lecture
Stata training for Domestic savings country authorsCapacity development on using Stata software is provided to the country authors of The domestic savings shortfall in developing countries – what can be done about it? project. The training is provided virtually by UNU-WIDER Research Associate...
News
Press Release | New UN study reveals limited impact of tax and social protection policies in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
Africa SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Policy Brief
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social protection and gender in TanzaniaOn 29 September 2021 UNU-WIDER researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation at the weekly online seminar of the Labour Institute for Economic Research . The topic of their presentation is Social protection and gender in...
Working Paper
The informal sector and the safety of female traders in Tanzania: A reflection of practices, policies, and legislationThis paper assesses the participation of female traders, safety factors, and existing policies and legislation in the informal sector in Tanzania...
Informal sector female entrepreneurship Tanzania