The role of parliaments in holding the executive accountable is a neglected topic in the study
of the democratization process in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular there is a lack of studies …

Tanzania's 2005 push to increase rice production by ambitious rural investments in irrigation
and by tariff protection of its rice industry from cheap imported subsidised rice has …

Various developing countries with weak public expenditure management systems are
establishing virtual poverty funds (VPFs), drawing on the experience of Uganda's Poverty …

In low income countries the majority of health care is sought in the private sector, often
through drug retailers, but little information is available on retail competition and regulation …

The provision of aid is increasingly under scrutiny with increasing demands for results. This
raises the question: what are our expectations from aid and are they realistic? Too often …

Health systems are gendered institutions. That is, their organization reflects and responds to
gender inequalities in the wider society. The hierarchy among health care staff places …

This paper examines trends and determinants of gross domestic savings in Tanzania using
data for the period 1990-2020. The autoregressive distributed lag approach is employed to …

This study examines the role of information acquisition and risk-bearing behaviour in the
adoption of crossbreeding technology in Tanzania. It also identifies the appropriate means …

This paper's distinctive feature is a shift towards a novel definfinition of a measure of income
inequality that provides a holistic understanding of income distribution supplemented with a …

This dissertation examines the evolution of coastal policy in sub-Saharan Africa. While few
coastal nations in sub-Saharan Africa have formulated and institutionalized national coastal …