Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector

During 2002–12, Tanzania’s economy grew more rapidly than at any other time in its history. More than three-quarters of its labour productivity growth is accounted for by structural change; the remainder is largely attributable to within-sector productivity growth in agriculture. The growth attribut...

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Autores principales: Ellis, Mia, McMillan, Margaret S., Silver, Jed
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146859
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Silver, Jed
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description During 2002–12, Tanzania’s economy grew more rapidly than at any other time in its history. More than three-quarters of its labour productivity growth is accounted for by structural change; the remainder is largely attributable to within-sector productivity growth in agriculture. The growth attributable to structural change is almost entirely explained by a rapid decline in the agricultural employment share and an increase in the non-agricultural private sector employment share—with 11.4% of employment growth in the private non-agricultural economy due to the expansion of the formal private sector; the remaining 88.6% occurred in the informal sector. This chapter assesses the role that services have played in Tanzania’s recent growth and the role that they could play in its economic future.
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spelling CGSpace1468592024-10-25T08:04:26Z Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector Ellis, Mia McMillan, Margaret S. Silver, Jed structural adjustment informal sector services agriculture labour productivity private sector During 2002–12, Tanzania’s economy grew more rapidly than at any other time in its history. More than three-quarters of its labour productivity growth is accounted for by structural change; the remainder is largely attributable to within-sector productivity growth in agriculture. The growth attributable to structural change is almost entirely explained by a rapid decline in the agricultural employment share and an increase in the non-agricultural private sector employment share—with 11.4% of employment growth in the private non-agricultural economy due to the expansion of the formal private sector; the remaining 88.6% occurred in the informal sector. This chapter assesses the role that services have played in Tanzania’s recent growth and the role that they could play in its economic future. 2019-09-06 2024-06-21T09:09:06Z 2024-06-21T09:09:06Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146859 en Open Access Oxford University Press Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret S.; and Silver, Jed. 2018. Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector. In Industries without smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa reconsidered, eds. Richard Newfarmer, John Page, and Finn Tarp. Chapter 15, Pp. 296-315. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821885.003.0015
spellingShingle structural adjustment
informal sector
services
agriculture
labour productivity
private sector
Ellis, Mia
McMillan, Margaret S.
Silver, Jed
Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector
title Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector
title_full Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector
title_fullStr Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector
title_full_unstemmed Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector
title_short Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania’s service sector
title_sort employment and productivity growth in tanzania s service sector
topic structural adjustment
informal sector
services
agriculture
labour productivity
private sector
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146859
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