IMF Staff Country Reports

Tanzania: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

January 7, 2003

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper reviews developments in Tanzania in the main fiscal indicators and related structural reforms to explain the success in fiscal management. The paper contains a brief overview of the structure of the public sector. Main developments in revenue and expenditure are covered. The paper concludes that the rationalization of expenditure programs and the progressive shift from domestic to foreign financing were at the core of Tanzanian macroeconomic stabilization in the second half of the 1990s, contributing to a sharp reduction in inflation.

Subject: Economic sectors, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Foreign exchange, Privatization, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Africa, Bank lending, Banking system, Commercial bank, CR, Debt sustainability, Enterprise, Enterprises account, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, ISCR, Privatization, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Supply company Ltd., Tanzania, Tanzania government

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    137

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2003/002

  • Stock No:

    1TZAEA0022003

  • ISBN:

    9781451838343

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685