Tanzania

The IGC-Tanzania programme is focused on macroeconomic management, public finance, poverty reduction, regional trade and infrastructure, firm capabilities, and agriculture. Specific research and analytical work covers fiscal policy issues, the challenge of jobless growth, money demand, food and fuel prices and inflation dynamics, dollarization, spatial price dispersion and market integration, and other areas. The IGC-Tanzania office is hosted by the Bank of Tanzania.

John Page

: Country Director (Ethiopia and Tanzania)

Charles K. Mutalemwa

: Country Resident Director

Christopher Adam

: Lead Academic

Pantaleo Kessy

: Senior Country Researcher

Jill Shirey

: Hub Economist

Mujobu Moyo

: In-Country Economist

Claire Lwehabura

: Office Manager

Attaining Middle Income Status: Tanzanian Growth and Structural Transformation Required to Reach Middle Income Status by 2025

Working Paper

Authors: Mujobu Moyo, Arun Jacob, Rebecca Simson, Francois-Xavier de Mevius

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Reflections from the IGC Growth Week 2011 – “Attaining Middle Income Status”

Policy brief

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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…

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Tanzania: Agriculture and Growth Dissemination Workshop

Event

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Estimating Transaction Costs in Tanzanian Supply Chains

Working Paper

Authors: Beatrice Kalinda Mkenda, Bjorn Van Campenhout

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Poverty & Productivity: Small-Scale Farming in Tanzania, 1991-2007

Working Paper

Authors: Razack Lokina, Måns Nerman, Justin Sandefur

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Agricultural Productivity Growth in Kagera between 1991 and 2004

Working Paper

Authors: Martina Kirchberger, Fulgence J. Mishili

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Financial Architecture and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Tanzania

Research Project

Author: Peter Montiel

This project attempts to determine the strength and reliability of the effects of the Bank of Tanzania’s monetary policy actions on the Tanzanian economy. It will seek to do so while developing a framework for the empirical study of monetary transmission that can be applied elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa,…

Dollarization in Tanzania: Empirical Evidence and Cross-Country Experience

Working Paper

Author: Pantaleo Kessy

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Evidence on Top Incomes in Tanzania 1948-1970

Working Paper

Author: Anthony Atkinson

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The Demand for Money in Tanzania

Working Paper

Author: Christopher Adam

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