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331.	Owning Economic Reforms
	Friday, December 16, 2005  by Admin
	This paper compares reform ownership in Ghana and Tanzania over the past two decades. It finds that on several dimensions, In the case of Tanzania, while initial reform efforts were made without aid, the acrimonious debate with donors that preceded the eventual agreement with the IMF and the socialist ideological heritage strengthened the perception of little ownership. Tanzanias relatively weak state capacity and weakened policy decision making process have contributed to lower ownership.
332.	Working with the private sector to eliminate poverty
	Friday, December 16, 2005  by Admin
	Selling fruit on a street corner; working on a farm; cleaning a high-rise office; selling basic medicines; operating a factory machine; repairing bicycles… The poorest people in our world are living in, and working in and sustaining a bustling, often unnoticed, private sector. Poor people sell their labour and goods, buy their food and other services in transactions that are predominantly private.
333.	How, When and Why Does Poverty Get Budget Priority?
	Friday, December 16, 2005  by Admin
	This paper synthesises the key findings from case studies in five countries (Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda), each of which examined how public expenditure management has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals. Each of our case study countries entered the 1990s with a pattern of public expenditure in which the efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditure was very low, and its benefits went mainly to the non-poor.
334.	Seed fairs and the case of Marambo village, Nachingwea district, Tanzania: implications of local informal seed supply and variety development for research and extension
	Friday, December 16, 2005  by Admin
	Until recently, indigenous systems of seed flow and variety development have essentially been ignored by local and public agricultural development organisations to promote seed and crop varieties. In Tanzania perceptions of seed and variety development by public service organisations appear to be shaped by familiarity with a model of centralized action and regulation leading to a standard distinct official product.
335.	Fiscal Policy Design in Low-Income Countries
	Friday, December 16, 2005  by Admin
	The design of fiscal policy in low-income countries has recently become a much more active focus for debate within and between the international financial institutions and the donors, as well as in the countries themselves. There are three reasons for this increased attention. Successful Stabilisation - The first reason is that a number of governments have largely succeeded in stabilizing and disinflating their economies, often making use of a rather draconian device for controlling aggregate spending, the cash budget.
336.	Global Forum on International Investment
	Thursday, December 15, 2005  by Admin
	During the past decade Tanzania has distinguished itself as one of the few African countries that have radically transformed their economies. Successes of these reforms are reflected in the countrys strong macroeconomic fundamentals with consistently increasing growth rates, consistent falling inflation and increasing inflow of foreign direct investments. There are many factors that have contributed to this success and one of them is the presidents unwavering commitment to build a strong private sector.
337.	Community Based Tourism in Tanzania: Potential and Perils in Practice
	Thursday, December 15, 2005  by Admin
	In todays world of disparity between developed and underdeveloped nations, the members of the former are increasingly seeking out travel experiences in the developing world. Developing countries are attracting an increasing share of the global tourism market, with arrivals rising from 20.8percent of the world total in 1973 to 42 percent in 2000. And it is the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) that have had the largest increase of incomes earned from international travel,
338.	Joint World Bank and IMF Report on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers—Progress in Implementation 2005
	Thursday, December 15, 2005  by Admin
	In September 1999, the Development and Interim Committees endorsed a framework to enhance the poverty focus of Bank and Fund concessional lending. The approach was based on poverty reduction strategies prepared by countries and embodied in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). The underlying goals were to support comprehensive, country-led efforts to sharpen the poverty focus and effectiveness of development assistance in low income countries, and to align assistance by external partners around those strategies.
339.	Learning from experience with performance assessment frameworks for general budget support
	Thursday, December 15, 2005  by Admin
	This report provides the findings of a study financed by SECO and undertaken under the auspices of the OECD-DAC multi-country evaluation of General Budget Support (GBS). The overall objective was to gather preliminary lessons on what could be good international practice in the development of Performance Assessment Frameworks (PAFs) for GBS.
340.	Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies
	Thursday, December 15, 2005  by Admin
	This Manual is available in three formats: hard copy, CD Rom, and via the ILO website. These formats address the personal preferences of users and the variation in access to technology of ILO staff and constituents. The Manual is being produced in three languages (English, French and Spanish) and disseminated via ILO field offices in the regions around the globe. It is structured as a series of brief sections of basic background information and analysis, complemented by signposting to more detailed information available on the enclosed CD Rom, the Internet and the ILO website.
341.	Macroeconomic Policy Choices for Growth and Poverty Reduction
	Thursday, December 15, 2005  by Admin
	The challenge of addressing the poverty problem in Tanzania has been high on the development agenda since early 1960’s. Tanzania’s Development Policy Experience is in three episodes: the Social Policy, Policy for Efficiency and Growth and the Initiative to Combine Growth and Social Policy. This paper addresses the initiatives and approaches that Tanzania has taken to try to fight poverty.
342.	Linking Global Commitments and Local Reality, The Case of Geita District, Tanzania
	Tuesday, December 13, 2005  by Admin
	The Government of Tanzania launched the Primary Education Development Plan (PEDP) to materializing Tanzania’s commitment towards the global Education for All (EFA) targets. The objective of this thesis was to examine how a substantial quantitative expansion of pupil enrolment affects primary school education in qualitative terms.
343.	MKUKUTA based MDG Costing for the Water and Sanitation Sector
	Monday, December 12, 2005  by Admin
	Although the water sector has made strides in improving water supply service coverage, the MKUKUTA implementation framework to be tackled is the acute shortage of water supply and poor sanitation facilities especially in squatter and slum areas.
344.	Kenya, Tanzania firms lead in crime
	Monday, December 5, 2005  by Admin
	The report on rising economic crime says 68 percent of Kenyan and Tanzanian companies are victims of economic crime. KENYAN and Tanzanian companies top the list of victims of economic crime, a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey in 34 countries globally says. Uganda not on the list Rising economic crime poses a growing threat to companies, with nearly half of all organisations worldwide being victims of fraud in the past two years, according to PwCs Global Economic Crime Survey 2005 released on November 30.
345.	Tanzania to Get Millennium Challenge Cash
	Monday, December 5, 2005  by Admin
	Tanzania has qualified for funding under the Millennium Challenge administered by the United States. This development signals donors apparent satisfaction with the countrys implementation of stringent governance performance targets set by the International Monetary Fund. Tanzania expects to get $187 million from the donors Basket Support Grants to add to a projected total expenditure of $4.1 billion for the year 2006/07 to fund the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP).
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