Growth in Tanzania: Is it Reducing Poverty?

Tanzania has received wide recognition for steering its economy in the right direction. In its recent publication, “Tanzania: the story of an African transition” the IMF argues that in the last two decades the Tanzanian economy went through a period of successful transition in which economic liberalization and institutional reform led to a recovery of GDP growth to more than 7% per year since 2000. Has this growth succeeded in improving lives of people? Policy Forum, in association with TWAWEZA, decided to produce this brochure which outlines how this “successful transition” has:

• failed to bring poverty reduction,
• most of the progress has occurred in Dar es Salaam and not in rural areas, and
• is associated with the poorest getting poorer and the richest richer

To read the full text of the brochure: click on the attachment below.