Policy Briefs

  • Technology Transfer Through FDI: Areas of Improvement MNEs (Multinational Enterprises)  may transfer technology to firms that supply them with intermediate goods, or to buyers of their own products. For suppliers, technology can be transferred through training on higher quality of  products. Therefore, FDIs may be of benefit to host countries like Tanzania via backward and forward linkages to factor inputs and factor outputs respectively. ...
  • PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE IN TANZANIA:CHALLENGES AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Rural women play a significant role in domestic and socio-economic life of the society such that national development is not possible without developing this important and substantial segment of our society. This paper examined the participation of women in agriculture activities. Read the Policy Brief 
  • Revenue Mobilization Issues in the Tanzanian LGA’s Nowadays, majority of the public sector organizations have been highly involved in the mobilization of their own revenue. This trend has been largely attributed to the emergence of the various management reforms introduced into the public sector organizations through New Public Management(NPM) and New Public Financial Management (NPFM) practices (Hood, 1991, 1995; Hood & Lodge, ...
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF BUDGETARY REFORMS IN TANZANIA Budgetary reforms under the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm are adopted and implemented in both developing and developed countries. The NPM is a dominant reform for public sector organizations since late 1970s. It was proposed to make public sector administration more efficient, effective and responsive. The NPM element in budgeting normally includes focusing on results ...
  • CURBING TAX EVASION BY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS IN TANZANIA For a long time, tax has been a major source of government revenue for most countries in the world. The structure is     generally composed of direct and indirect taxes. For direct taxes the factors that produce incomes are assumed to pay the taxes while for indirect taxes the house hold or firms that ...