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1 online resource (164 pages)
ISBN:
9780821372630
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9780821372623
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While Tanzania has been at the forefront of creating a positive legal framework and political context for gender equality, certain legal, regulatory, and administrative barriers still hinder women's full participation in private sector development. This report analyzes these barriers and makes recommendations for needed change, to ensure women's full contribution to private sector development and economic growth in Tanzania. Building on intensive stakeholder consultations and the findings of numerous studies, notably the MKURABITA diagnostic and the 2003/4 Investment Climate Assessments for Tanzania and Zanzibar, this report examines these gender-related barriers to growth and investment. It highlights legal and administrative constraints that have a disproportionately negative effect on female-headed businesses, and makes recommendations for needed reforms. Addressing these issues would not only help unlock the full economic potential of women, but would help improve the environment for all businesses in Tanzania. While Tanzania's economic growth has been strong, this report finds that if the country were to bring female secondary schooling and female total years of schooling to the same level as now enjoyed by males, this could produce up to an additional annual percentage point of growth - a valuable contribution to achieving the 6-8 percent annual growth targets of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP or MKUKUTA).
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Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Background -- Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations -- Notes -- Matrix of Recommendations -- Chapter 1 Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania -- Women and Men in the Tanzanian Economy -- Nonmarket Work and Time Use -- Gender and Growth-Macro- and Microperspectives -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Starting and Closing a Business -- The Costs of Starting a Business -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Access to Land and Site Development -- Property Rights -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Access to Finance -- Constraints of Limited Access to Finance -- Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) -- Formal Financing -- Reform of the System for Registration of Securities over Movable Assets -- Asset Leasing -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Operating a Business-Taxation, Infrastructure, and Access to Day Care -- Problems with Tax Administration -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Labor Laws-How They Affect Women -- Gender Gaps in Opportunity -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Access to Commercial Justice -- Legal Mechanisms -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Access to International Trade -- Tanzania's Benefits from Increased Trade -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Way Forward -- Working with Partners to Bring About Reform -- Entry Points for Reform -- Moving Ahead -- Note -- Appendix 1 Notes on Data and Methodology for the Gender and Growth Chapter -- Capturing Men's and Women's Economic Roles -- Analysis of Gender and Growth Linkages -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 Labor in Zanzibar -- 1.2 Household Tasks, Time Use, and Entrepreneurship in Tanzania -- 1.3 Population Growth in Tanzania -- 1.4 The Cost of Different Gender Roles in Agriculture-A Tanzania Case Study.
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Tables; Figures; Matrix of Recommendations; Chapter 1 Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania; Boxes; Chapter 2 Starting and Closing a Business; Chapter 3 Access to Land and Site Development; Chapter 4 Access to Finance; Chapter 5 Operating a Business-Taxation, Infrastructure, and Access to Day Care; Chapter 6 Labor Laws-How They Affect Women; Chapter 7 Access to Commercial Justice; Chapter 8 Access to International Trade; Chapter 9 The Way Forward; Appendix 1 Notes on Data and Methodology for the Gender and Growth Chapter
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821372623
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821372623
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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