This paper examines trends and determinants of gross domestic savings in Tanzania using data for the period 1990 … considerable fluctuations over time. The empirical results show that in the long run, per capita income, public saving, and the … increases in per capita income, real deposit rate, and broad money positively influence savings, while inflation has a negative …

The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent … of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or … implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied to artificial missing data for Tanzania and Zambia, and-using one …

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and …

agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects … credit. The findings suggest that there are potentially significant, economic returns to systematic land titling in Tanzania …

This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by … government tax revenue and a neutral effect on income distribution and poverty. The results of the second reform find a positive … effect on household income distribution and consumption. The findings show that, despite increasing unequal income …

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since …

consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track … benefit from growth, except in Tanzania where growth is driven by the skill-intensive sectors. We also find significant losers … from growth in Tanzania where the rate of inflation is very high compared to the other countries. Our methodology finds …

from 3,676 households that appear in at least two waves to explore the effect of income diversification on household … welfare measured in terms of food consumption. The analysis considers four sources of labour income in addition to farming …

credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more … differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income …

what determines differences in saving behaviour across countries. Using a panel of 47 economies with at least 40 years of … savings, thereby contributing to higher investment. The dynamics of such productivity shocks have been disentangled into trend … and cyclical shocks to uncover that cyclical productivity shocks tend to have a strong positive effect on saving rates …