Tanzania at the Turn of the Century : Background Papers and Statistics

This report is the successor to the
Country Economic Memorandum for Tanzania prepared in 1996
(World Bank 1996). The 1996 memorandum focused on the
challenge of reforms and paid particular attention to the
impact of reforms on growth, incomes, and welfare in
Tanzania. The present report draws out lessons from
Tanzania's development experience of the past four
decades, with emphasis on the period since the last report,
and assesses the imperatives for higher sustained growth and
better livelihood for its citizens in the future. The
background papers presented in this Country Study review and
assess Tanzania's actual growth and poverty reduction
performance against its large natural potential and against
countries at a comparable stage of development, analyze the
main reasons behind the performance record, and then draw
out the strategic and institutional imperatives for
exploiting the country's vast potential for sustained
growth and reduction of poverty in the long and medium term.
The analysis focuses on development of the private sector
and its increased role in scaling up overall growth and
modernization of the Tanzanian economy. One chapter focuses
on the Zanzibar economy and its development, even though
Zanzibar is part of the union, because the policy and
institutional framework for the island are distinct enough
to merit separate attention. Also presented are the
statistical appendices.