Tanzania Private Sector Assessment

The Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment provides information on the size, location and characteristics of non-state health service providers in Tanzania. It also identifies challenges and opportunities for the Government of Tanzania and International Community to leverage the potential of these providers to achieve

The Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment provides information on the size, location and characteristics of non-state health service providers in Tanzania. It also identifies challenges and opportunities for the Government of Tanzania and International Community to leverage the potential of these providers to achieve

Tanzania contemporary executing industrialization agenda with prime concern to champion private sector to associate and dominance the process particularly through furnish domestic credit to the private sectors. Nevertheless the influence of industrial policies to the private sector in Tanzania have certainly not been deliberated. The contemporary academic work is undertaken to estimate the influence of industrial policies to the private sector during the period from 2008 to 2017 in Tanzania. A Simple Regression Model was applied to estimate the influence of industrial policies to the private sector during the period from 2008 to 2017 in Tanzania. All facts of the study were collected from the world bank from the period from 2008 to 2017 in Tanzania. Industrial policies were represented by economic openness index regarded as independent variable and domestic credit to the private sector regarded as dependent variable of the study. Findings of the study were in actual fact catching up the attention. The information discovered reveal that the correlation between economic openness and domestic credit to the private sector is negative and insignificant. The meaning is industrial policies did not have the influence to the private sector during the period from 2008 to 2017 in Tanzania.

The research and policy dialogue of Tanzania's National Capacity Assessment Team, a World Bank initiated body, forms the basis of this analysis. The assessment team's remit was to identify strategic capacity needs, when capacity is understood as the human and institutional resources necessary for development. The study identifies that capacity needs are interlinked and require an integrated approach: strengthening government agencies is impossible in the long term without improvement in professional training; private sector growth requires access to business information, communication and regulatory and judicial institutions. Accordingly, the analysis provides an overview, and formulates strategies for public and private sector institutions and infrastructures, civil society and education. Particular regard is given to: finance and economic management of the public sector; the civil service; the role of donors and the need for corrective action in local and regional administration and across the education system.

Tanzania’s bank-dominated financial sector is small, concentrated, and at a relatively nascent stage of development. Financial services provision is dominated by commercial banks, with the ten largest institutions being preeminent in terms of mobilizing savings and intermediating credit. Medium-to-small banks rely systematically more on costlier, short-term, interbank financing and institutional deposits and have markedly higher operating costs. These structural features underpin financial stability challenges which are significant. Bank asset quality has deteriorated sharply in recent years, and under-provisioning is significant, belying the apparently comfortable capital cushions. Credit growth has fallen precipitously, corporate debt loads have risen, and their cash flows are weak. Dollarization of bank balance-sheets raises the possibility of solvency stress under shocks being exacerbated by funding liquidity pressures, especially at smaller banks.

While Tanzania has been at the forefront of creating a positive legal framework and political context for gender equality, certain legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers still hinder women's full participation in private sector development. This report analyzes these barriers and makes recommendations for needed change, to ensure women's full contribution to private sector development and economic growth in Tanzania. Building on intensive stakeholder consultations and the findings of numerous studies, notably the MKURABITA diagnostic and the 2003/4 Investment Climate Assessments for Tanzania and Zanzibar, this report examines these gender-related barriers to growth and investment. It highlights legal and administrative constraints that have a disproportionately negative effect on female-headed businesses, and makes recommendations for needed reforms. Addressing these issues would not only help unlock the full economic potential of women, but would help improve the environment for all businesses in Tanzania. While Tanzania's economic growth has been strong, this report finds that if the country were to bring female secondary schooling and female total years of schooling to the same level as now enjoyed by males, this could produce up to an additional annual percentage point of growth - a valuable contribution to achieving the 6-8 percent annual growth targets of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP or MKUKUTA).

The United Republic of Tanzania has a predominantly agricultural economy, with agriculture accounting for more than two-thirds of employment in rural areas and representing 30 percent of GDP. Yet, by global standards and even by the standards of Developing Countries, crop yields in the county are low. Using improved seeds and mineral fertilizers is therefore critical to promoting growth in crop productivity, food production and sustaining the natural resource base, especially among the smallholder farmers who subsist on nutrient-poor soils. In 2016, The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries (MALF) of the United Republic of Tanzania requested an assessment of the potential costs and benefits of a proposed Bulk Procurement System (BPS) for fertilizer imports that would consolidate international procurement to save costs, ultimately improving the affordability for farmers. This assessment was jointly carried out and submitted to MALF in 2017 by FAO and the International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC), and presents an analysis of the fertilizer market, the proposed BPS policy, and interviews with over one hundred public, private, and civil society stakeholders. The findings indicate that the proposed system would likely not reduce prices for farmers and could negatively affect availability and market competition – causing prices to increase in the long term. The authors therefore recommend against its implementation pending further consultations, or to pilot the system with careful review and evaluation. The report also presents alternative policy options for the short and medium term to improve overall efficiency in the value chain and ultimately make fertilizer more affordable for Tanzanian smallholder farmers.

Private sector in Tanzania accounts for over 80 per cent of GDP of the economy. Most of the investments are owned by the private sector. Private sector investment however, has not been sufficient to guarantee rapid private sector growth. The low level of investment is partly accounted for by the low level of savings and access for finances to finance private investments. The private sector has been constrained by many factors relating to limited domestic credit provided by banking sector, inflation, liquid liabilities, lending rates and regulatory quality. The financial sector on the other had remains undiversified in terms of the financial products it offers. The private sector would gain most from the financial sector if the country continues to maintain a stable macroeconomic environment, strengthening the legal protection for creditors, effectively applying the laws and judicial systems, along with cementing the quality of financial and accounting standards. This book is very useful to financial researchers, financial analysts, financial institutions, policy makers, creditors and borrowers