International Aid to Tanzania - with Some Comparisons from Ghana and Uganda

Tribe, Michael (2015) International Aid to Tanzania - with Some Comparisons from Ghana and Uganda. Discussion paper. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

[thumbnail of Tribe-2015-International-aid-to-tanzania-with-some-comparisons-from-ghana-and-uganda]
Preview
 Text. Filename: Tribe_2015_International_aid_to_tanzania_with_some_comparisons_from_ghana_and_uganda.pdf
Final Published Version
Download (396kB)| Preview

Abstract

This paper has three principal objectives. First, to review the level of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Tanzania over the last two to three decades, and to place this into an economic context. This review includes some comparisons with the experience of Ghana and Uganda. Second, to discuss three major issues for the Tanzanian aid: the position of ODA as budget support, corruption, and alignment with the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Third, to review the literature on the Tanzanian aid experience, including a range of official evaluation reports produced by the Tanzanian government and by the donor community. The conclusions, broadly, are that ODA has been at a sustained high level for most of the period reviewed, funding a significant amount of government development expenditure, and that economic growth has been strong, with poverty reduction ‘flat-lining’ in Tanzania but being significant in Ghana and Uganda. Experience with budget support in Tanzania has been mixed, corruption continues as a major concern, and improvements to public finance management have been difficult to achieve. In this context governance adjustments come slowly, requiring patience on the part of both recipient governments and the ODA donor community.

  • Item type:Monograph(Discussion paper)
    ID code:68328
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    28 April 2015
    Published
    Notes:Published as a paper within the Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 15-03 (2015). This paper is a draft version of a chapter to be included in a book based on the proceedings of a conference on Tanzanian Development held at the University of Bradford on May 29th and 30th 2014. The book is being edited by Dr David Potts of the Bradford International Development Centre, University of Bradford.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races > Regional planning
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:11 Jun 2019 08:53
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 16:05
    Related URLs:
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/68328
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)