Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania: Creating Opportunities for Women

Amanda Ellis, Mark Blackden, Josephine Cutura, Fiona MacCulloch and Holger Seebens

No 6829 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The World Bank Group recognizes the critical importance of women's contribution to shared economic growth, especially in Africa. Women's important contribution to economic activity in Tanzania is well recognized: In the 2006 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap report Tanzania was ranked number 1 globally, out of 115 countries, in terms of women's economic participation. This paper includes the following headings: gender and economic growth in Tanzania; starting and closing a business; access to land and site development; access to finance; operating a business -- taxation, infrastructure, and access to day care; labor laws -- how they affect women; access to commercial justice; access to international trade; and the way forward.

Keywords: Gender-Gender and Development Rural Development Knowledge and Information Systems Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies Gender-Gender and Law Finance and Financial Sector Development-Access to Finance Rural Development Health; Nutrition and Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7262-3
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