Employment and productivity growth in Tanzania's service sector

Mia Ellis, Margaret McMillan and Jed Silver

No wp-2017-16, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Despite Tanzania's rapid recent growth, the vast majority of employment creation has been in informal services. This paper addresses the role that different subsectors of formal and informal services have played in Tanzania's growth. It finds that subsectors such as trade services contribute significantly to employment despite their relatively low productivity, while subsectors such as business and transportation services display higher productivity and improve the environment for other firms to operate.

Keywords: Services; Informal sector; Economic growth; Structural change; Tanzania; Tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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