| dc.creator |
Kinda, Tidiane |
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| dc.creator |
Loening, Josef L. |
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| dc.date |
2012-03-30T07:28:57Z |
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| dc.date |
2012-03-30T07:28:57Z |
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| dc.date |
2010 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2023-02-18T19:43:38Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2023-02-18T19:43:38Z |
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| dc.identifier |
African Development Review/Revue Africaine de Developpement |
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| dc.identifier |
10176772 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4633 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/250113 |
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| dc.description |
This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, we describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a challenging business environment. However, about one-third of rural enterprises are growing fast. Most enterprises engage in agricultural trade. Due to a rapidly growing agricultural sector in recent years, limiting demand-side constraints, rural enterprise constraints in Tanzania mainly operate from the supply-side, suggesting that in particular access to finance, road infrastructure and rural cell phone communication is associated with employment growth. A major finding is that subjective and objective measurements of business constraints are broadly comparable. We discuss a number of factors that would help to unleash the full potential of private sector-led growth in rural areas. Marginal improvements of the rural investment climate matter for growth. |
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| dc.language |
EN |
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| dc.relation |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo |
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| dc.rights |
World Bank |
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| dc.subject |
Capital Budgeting |
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| dc.subject |
Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies G310 |
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| dc.subject |
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures |
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| dc.subject |
Other Public Investment and Capital Stock H540 |
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| dc.subject |
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 |
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| dc.subject |
Economic Development: Financial Markets |
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| dc.subject |
Saving and Capital Investment |
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| dc.subject |
Corporate Finance and Governance O160 |
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| dc.subject |
Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses |
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| dc.subject |
Transportation O180 |
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| dc.subject |
Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis |
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| dc.subject |
Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420 |
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| dc.title |
Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania |
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| dc.type |
Journal Article |
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| dc.type |
Journal Article |
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| dc.coverage |
Tanzania |
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