IMF Staff Country Reports

United Republic of Tanzania: Selected Issues

July 27, 2016

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United Republic of Tanzania: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines productivity, growth, structural reforms, and macroeconomic policies in Tanzania. Tanzania experienced macroeconomic stabilization and significant structural change over the last three decades, including two major waves of reforms, first in the mid-1980s and more importantly in the mid-1990s. Both reform waves were followed by total factor productivity (TFP) and growth spurts. Over the recent period, TFP growth decreased, which coincided with a less strong reform drive. It is suggested that a TFP-led growth model is superior and that vigorous reforms are needed to foster further structural transformation of the economy and sustain high productivity gains and investment.

Subject: Education spending, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Health care spending, Revenue administration, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, CR, East Africa, Education spending, Gas revenue, Global, Headline expenditure numbers point, Health care spending, Investment spending, ISCR, Management consideration, Management legislation, Price, Public spending efficiency, Revenue, Tanzania, Tax revenue

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    61

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2016/254

  • Stock No:

    1TZAEA2016003

  • ISBN:

    9781498390941

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685