Tanzania Poverty Assessment

World Bank

Tanzania Poverty Assessment

2015

World Bank

Since the early 2000s, Tanzania has seen remarkable economic growth and strong resilience to external shocks. Yet these achievements were overshadowed by the slow response of poverty to the growing economy. Until 2007, the poverty rate in Tanzania remained stagnant at around 34 percent despite a robust growth at an annualized rate of approximately 7 percent. This apparent disconnect between growth and poverty reduction has raised concerns among policy makers and researchers, leading to a consensus that this mismatch needed to be addressed with a sense of urgency. Over the past few years, the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) in Tanzania has given high priority to eradicating extreme poverty and promoting broad-based growth. Achieving pro-poor growth has also been widely recognized by the World Bank as a critical strategy for accelerating progress toward its twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty at the global level by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity by fostering income growth among the bottom 40 percent in every country. The official poverty figures announced by the government in November 2013 have revealed that the national strategy against poverty has begun to facilitate reductions. The basic needs poverty rate has declined from around 34 percent to 28.2 percent between 2007 and 2012, the first significant decline in the last 20 years. Identifying the policy mechanisms that have helped to increase the participation of the poor in the growth process and to speed pro-poor growth is therefore important for present and future decision-making in Tanzania on how best to eradicate poverty. Such task requires a rigorous analysis of the evolution of poverty and of the linkages between poverty, inequality, and economic growth. This report uses the availability of the new Tanzanian Household Budget Survey (HBS) for 2011 and 2012, as well as the new rebased GDP figures released in December 2014, as an opportunity to address these issues. More specifically, the report examines the recent trends in poverty and inequality and their determinants and explores how responsive poverty reduction was to economic growth and the obstacles to achieving it.

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Washington, DC

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Chronic poverty; Landholdings; Poverty lines; Chronic malnutrition; Subsistence farmers; Rural differences; Income quintile; National poverty; Inequality; Cash transfer programs; National poverty line; Rural people; Poverty situation; Child mortality; Access to services; Female education; Agricultural employment; Food shortage; Higher inequality; Rural sectors; Political economy; Rural dwellers; Rural sector; Employment of women; Poor rural households; International poverty line; Human capital endowments; Correlates of poverty; Rural community; Discrimination against women; Poverty gap; Disadvantaged areas; Commercial agriculture; Global poverty; Poverty headcount rates; Rural; Poverty profile; Estimates of poverty; Poor households; Poor families; Measures; Rural family; Impact on poverty; Food consumption data; Poverty reduction strategies; Food needs; Rural women; Consumption expenditures; Poverty mapping; Poverty analysis; Poverty eradication; Money transfers; Poor people; Food goods; National poverty lines; Female-headed households; Poverty status; Household welfare; Poverty measures; Rural inequality; Labor market policies; Transfer programs; Poor household; Rural counterparts; Food policy; Poverty incidence; Agricultural output; Rural gap; Human development; Poor; Household head; Food poverty line; Egalitarian distribution; Poverty indicators; Inequality reduction; Income inequality; Household size; Poverty severity; Welfare indicators; Rural poor households; Income growth; International poverty lines; Poverty rates; Poverty assessment; Poverty levels; Poverty index; Poverty line; Elimination of poverty; Employment opportunities; Food items; Employment status; Transfers; Global markets; Food poverty; Income gains; Per capita consumption; Safety nets; Food expenditures; Food basket; Household survey; Food price; Incidence of poverty; Household consumption per capita; Poverty reduction strategy; Poverty maps; Poverty dynamics; Poverty persistence; Risks; Household heads; Poor populations; Poor economic growth; Poor farmers; Rural poor people; Household composition; Rural labor; Rural markets; Poverty poverty; Idiosyncratic shocks; Rural economy; Disadvantaged groups; Risk sharing; Rural residence; Counterfactual; Female empowerment; Poverty estimates; Income shares; Rural households

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English

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Tanzania Poverty Assessment

2015

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