This Policy Brief presents an assessment of whether Tanzania’s business environment reforms over the past three decades have translated into productivity-enhancing structural transformation of the economy. Utilizing shift-share decomposition and econometric analysis for the 1990–2018 period, this brief presents stylized facts about structural transformation in Tanzania and analyses the impact of reforms on productivity growth […]

This Policy Brief presents an assessment of whether Tanzania’s business environment reforms over the past three decades have translated into productivity-enhancing structural transformation of the economy. Utilizing shift-share decomposition and econometric analysis for the 1990–2018 period, this brief presents stylized facts about structural transformation in Tanzania and analyses the impact of reforms on productivity growth and labour reallocation across sectors (i.e., structural transformation). READ ON…!