ABSTRACT Education expenditure is trusted to be one of the key priorities towards economic growth and welfare improvement. The Tanzanian government believes that the improvement in economic growth and living standard of the people can be achieved through increase in public education expenditure. However, despite the efforts of improving the quality and access to education in Tanzania, there is still no clear understanding of quantitative effects of education expenditure on economic growth and...
ABSTRACT The present study attempts to test the mechanisms of Export - Led Growth in Tanzania Mainland by taking a time- series data from 1980 to 2012. It applies Ordinary Least squares (OLS) method to investigate the relationship between Gross National Product, Total Exports, Agro-product Exports, Manufactured Exports, Mineral Exports, Petroleum Products, Other Exports and Investments. The results of the study support the Export - Led growth Hypothesis (ELGH) in Tanzania Mainland.
ABSTRACT The key aim of this thesis was to analyse the relationship among exports, foreign direct investments, government spending and economic development in Tanzania. The specific objectives of the study aimed to examine the effect of exports on economic growth in Tanzania; to inspect the relationship among foreign direct investments on economic growth, and to test the relationship between government spending (Gross national expenditure) and economic growth. Additionally, the research quest...
ABSTRACT The study analyzed the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on economic growth and stability in Tanzania. The study questioned mechanisms that make one policy more effective than the other and traced efficient way of using these policies; which most prior empirical works did not mention. The study filled this gap in literature by analyzing fiscal adjustments of revenue and spending; comparing effects of money supply and interest rate; and finally deriving an optimal policy – mix...
ABSTRACT This study assesses “The Impact of Mobile Money Services, Costs and Commission to Active Mobile Money Users on Economic Growth of Small and Medium Business. A Case Study of M-Pesa Agents in Dodoma Municipality”. The methodology used to conduct this study was exploratory and mixed in nature that included the use of various data collection tools to meet the objectives of the research. The study used primary data collection methods such as; observation, interview and questionnaires,...
ABSTRACT The study provides an assessment of the relationship between budget deficit and economic growth in Namibia using time series quarterly secondary data covering the period, 1993 Q4 to 2015, Q4. The study employs the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test and estimates the coefficients of the variables from the unrestricted error correction model in examining the relationship between budget deficit and economic growth. The KPSS unit root test results show that real GDP, deb...