create SEZs in Tanzania began in 2002, and were stepped up through the establishment of the Export Processing Zone Authority … been. This paper aims to help fill this gap by exploring the role of state-owned SEZs in Tanzania. The focus is on …

The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania … programmes. We found that firms in Kenya and Zimbabwe have a higher number of male than female employees, while zones in Tanzania …

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences …-cutting blockages to growth. In East Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In … Southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. These centre on deep …

Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa. We document at the country level the state of current SEZ programmes and the policy measures …

propelled a wave of similar initiatives across Africa. In Southern Africa, Zambia and South Africa instituted special economic … zones in their respective legal and institutional frameworks in the 2000s as mechanisms for catalysing industrialization and … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …

the current and future development of mining. Focusing on Tanzania as typical of the emerging "new mineralizing Africa …

on local revenues in sub-Saharan Africa, a region where local fiscal capacity is limited and endogenously determined by … of many rural districts in Africa - intergovernmental transfers facilitate local revenue generation instead of … undermining it. Analysing newly available quarterly fiscal data on local revenues in Tanzania, I show that intergovernmental …

particular Tanzania of their stated aspiration to achieve middle-income status. In doing so it finds little evidence that the …

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 …