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Poverty-Focused Social Accounting Matrices for Tanzania, 1998-2001

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Title Poverty-Focused Social Accounting Matrices for Tanzania, 1998-2001
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HNCAP1
 
Creator James Thurlow
Peter Wobst
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The development of effective and sustainable economic policies for Tanzania requires access to
appropriate databases. One such database is a social accounting matrix (SAM) that details the
structure of the entire economy, taking into account the patterns of production and demand, and
various institutional relationships. Prior to this study the most recent SAM for mainland
Tanzania was for 1992 and was based on past household budget and labor force surveys.
Following the release of newer versions of these two surveys as well as a new input-output table
for 1992, it is desirable to c
onstruct a new SAM for the country. Furthermore, given that
Tanzania is committed to reducing national poverty, it is necessary that this new SAM is able to
address questions related to poverty and inequality.


This paper outlines the process of developing SAMs for mainland Tanzania. Although this
process was formally a collaborative project undertaken by the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Tanzanian National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the final
pro
ject team also contained representatives from the Bank of Tanzania, the Tanzanian Revenue
Authority, the University of Dar es Salaam, and the Economic and Social Research Foundation
(ESRF). The collaboration combined IFPRI’s technical experience with the collaborators’
knowledge of the country and available statistical data. The SAMs were constructed during a
series of workshops held in Tanzania aimed at capacity building, information sharing, and firsthand
data validation. Furthermore, the process was made sufficiently flexible to allow the NBS
to easily update the SAM to sub
sequent years. The updating process is also detailed in this paper.
Although only the 2000 SAM is described, the process is identical for the other Tanzanian SAMs
published by IFPRI for 1998 onwards.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
social accounting matrix
SAM
poverty
Tanzania
East Africa
Africa South of Sahara
Africa
 
Language English
 
Date 1998
 
Relation Tanzania Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), 2009


A 1992 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Tanzania
 
Type Value added secondary data