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Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania

Expansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to increasingly expand social protection for informal workers. This paper examines the case of Tanzania by exploring the policy developments that have sought to facilitate access to social protection within the informal economy over the past 10-15 years, notably through the expansion of social insurance provision. The paper highlights the pioneering legislative reforms and innovative approaches to social insurance adopted in the country, while drawing attention to the emergence of 'competitive' informal social security arrangements that attract informal workers at the expense of formal social insurance uptake. As such, the paper underscores the need for policy makers to double efforts in awareness-raising and policy design accounting for the needs and contribution capacities of informal workers.

ISBN
978-92-9267-215-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2022/84

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Africa; Oceania
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Thema
informal sector
Tanzania
social policy
social insurance

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lambin, Roosa
Nyyssölä, Milla
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/215-7
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lambin, Roosa
  • Nyyssölä, Milla
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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