Key constraints for rural non-farm activity in Tanzania: combining investment climate and household surveys

摘要: We use a survey of small rural enterprises from Tanzania to identify subjective as well objective obstacles expansion and productivity the country's non-farm sector. Our results suggest that infrastructure constraints significantly reduce participation in sector investment by existing enterprises. Such are particularly harmful for enterprises, suggesting policies improve delivery key public services can provide basis development, with possible knock-on effects on poverty reduction. Copyright 2009 The author 2008. Published Oxford University Press behalf Centre Study African Economies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org, Press.