This paper is the second in an analysis of a survey of 83 manufacturing enterprises in Tanzania. The previous analysis reported that large firms are more likely to export than other firms, and more large firms sustain their investments than smaller firms. Also, parastatals, including firms with...

Since the mid-1980s Tanzania has implemented a number of trade and fiscal policy reforms that were partly intended to encourage increased export activity by manufacturing firms. Macroeconomic data suggest that there has been little response. To understand this lack of response we need to...

Current arrangements under the Lomé Convention have given African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries preferential access to EU markets, but the legality of this non- reciprocal arrangement has been challenged by the World Trade Organisation. The European Union has proposed replacing these...