Diversified business groups (DBGs) have played an important role in industrialisation in developing countries, and they continue to have an impact on economic growth, including ...
Industrial policies increasingly rely on the use of special regimes which provide fiscal, regulatory and other advantages to firms that invest in a particular geographic ...
Informal payments for healthcare are widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. They are often regressive, potentially limiting access to quality healthcare, particularly for the most vulnerable, and ...
Tanzania’s energy sector is at a crossroads. After almost two decades punctuated by corruption scandals and increasing financial unsustainability of the country’s state-owned public utility the Tanzania ...
Tanzania’s skills sector is characterised by significant mistrust between public and private stakeholders. Despite a strong joint interest in developing skills, outcomes are undermined by ...
Rice is a ‘political crop’. As the second most important staple crop after maize in people’s diets in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), rice attracts considerable domestic ...
Sugar scarcity is a widespread phenomenon across the African continent. National governments cover the so-called ‘sugar gap’ – the difference between domestically produced sugar and ...
The existence of skills gaps and mismatches has been widely documented in several developing countries. Tanzania is no exception here. Highly subsidised vocational education and ...
This paper is the first comprehensive study of Tanzanian Diversified Business Groups (DBGs) – conglomerates that encompass a variety of inter-linked, market-based economic activities, which are organised ...
This briefing summarises the theoretical research framework of the Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) research consortium based on our recently published Working Paper Anti-corruption in adverse contexts: strategies for improving implementation ...
