Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania

Arbeitspapier

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live. The household survey data documents a limited reduction in consumption poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-940-4
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2015/051

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Economic Development: General ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Subject: Tanzania ; growth ; poverty ; inequality ; non-monetary poverty

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Arndt, Channing ; Demery, Lionel ; McKay, Andy ; Tarp, Finn
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2015/940-4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126371
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET