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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agricultural growth agricultural land agricultural productivity agricultural sector cash crops child nutrition crop production death drinking water economic growth extreme poverty farmers food consumption food crops food insecurity food prices food products food security household budget household consumption household income household surveys human capital human rights illiteracy income income transfers insurance irrigation land ownership land productivity malnutrition nutrition poverty poverty alleviation poverty reduction rural areas rural communities rural development rural poor rural population rural poverty savings targeting unemployment

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Washington, DC

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

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CC BY 3.0 IGO, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/, World Bank

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Report; Rapport; Informe

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Fecha de modificación: 2025-05-23

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