The Government of Tanzania aims to transform the nation into a middle income country by 2025. The paper describes the sort of structural transformation that Tanzania may be expected to undergo as it grows to middle income status.
This is achieved by assembling data for a set of comparator countries that reached middle income status over the past 50 years and reviewing the structure of their economies as they reached this target. It then analyses what would be required for Tanzania to transform into a country akin to these middle income comparator countries.
Drawing connections between the Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania sessions at Growth Week 2011: "Zambia, Ghana and the countries that follow in their wake such as Tanzania should work relentlessly at diversifying their economies to achieve export diversification and sophistication thereby cushioning their economies from the vagaries of commodity prices".
Authored by Herryman Moono and Felix Mwenge, IGC Zambia In-Country Economists, with input from Dr. Pamela Kabaso, Research Fellow-ZIPAR.
The IGC-Tanzania is planning to hold a research dissemination workshop on Agriculture and Growth in Tanzania on the 29th November 2011.
This event will provide an opportunity for policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders to discuss findings and policy implications of four important studies undertaken by eminent researchers in the field of Agricultural Economics.
Event Type:
Workshop
The IGC-Tanzania is planning to hold a research dissemination workshop on Agriculture and Growth in Tanzania on the 29th November 2011.
This event will provide an opportunity for policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders to discuss findings and policy implications of four important studies undertaken by eminent researchers in the field of Agricultural Economics.
The four papers to be presented during the workshop are:
Organizer:
Claire Lwehabura
Contact Email Address:
lwehaburac@yahoo.co.uk
Location:
ESRF Conference Hall located at 51 Uporoto Street [Off Ali Hassan Mwinyi], Ursino Estate
Tanzania’s current efforts to modernize and commercialize its large agricultural sector is unlikely to reach full potential if it does not, at the same time, tackle inefficiencies in the supply chain linking producers in rural areas to consumers in urban areas.
The objective of this research was to document and estimate the transaction costs involved in the supply chain, in other words in getting agricultural commodities from the farm gate to the consumer.
The role of agriculture in economic growth and the wider structural transformation of Tanzania is a key concern for policy makers. This paper tries to understand time trends in agricultural productivity. The main finding is that the most important source of consumption growth in Tanzania between 1991 and 2007 has been structural change, i.e. people moving out of agriculture.
The role of agriculture in economic growth and the wider structural transformation of Tanzania is a key concern for policy makers. Understanding whether the main driver of rural income growth lies in productivity growth within agriculture itself or through the growth of off-farm activities is particularly important in countries like Tanzania, where 80% of its residents depend on agriculture for their livelihood and 70% reside in rural areas.
Prior to joining the International Growth Centre as IGC Fellow, Jill undertook both research and programme development work in several different countries. For example, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to Sri Lanka, where she designed and implemented research on the garment industry. Jill later worked for the Sri Lanka/India office of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity on anti-human trafficking programs. She has also done research on the microfinance sector in India for the Centre for Microfinance (Chennai).
Christopher Adam's research focuses on the macroeconomics and political economy of low-income economies, principally those of Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent work has focused on the macroeconomic effects of aid and he is currently engaged in an Economic and Social Research Council project on the macroeconomic management of external volatility.
