Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. There are high expectations that exploitation of ...

Abstract Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource ...

Abstract Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop local content policies (LCPs) ...

Corruption appears to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. We report from a large-scale field experiment in ...

The recent discovery of huge oil and gas reserves in Tanzania has created a new opportunity for economic growth and development of the country. ...

Property taxation (PT) is high on the political agenda in Tanzania and considered a cornerstone of the Government’s efforts to strengthen ...

The Taxation, Institutions and Participation (TIP) project investigates the effects of tax havens on the domestic revenue system, institutions ...

Norway has been supporting the development of natural resources management in Tanzania since the 1970s, focusing on fisheries, forestry, wildlife ...

The overall objective of phase 2 (2005-2009) of this research programme is to document the processes of change and impacts of the ongoing Local ...

Tanzania: Macroeconomic modelling. A long-term project (1992-2001) that includes developing a macroeconomic projection model for the Tanzanian ...

On Friday 24 November Research Director Odd-Helge Fjeldstad defended his doctoral thesis (disputas) "Tax evasion and fiscal corruption. Essays on compliance and tax administrative practices in East and South Africa" at NHH.

Chris Maina Peter, Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam and a well known human rights advocate and activist, championing the rights of the marginalised through legal advice and pro bono litigation.

Dr Eirik G. Jansen is a social anthropologist whose research has mainly focused on natural resource management in traditional fisheries in East Africa and land issues in Bangladesh.

Tanzanian health workers do not convert enough of their knowledge into practice. As a consequence, patients are inadequately examined. Building a stronger professional ethic could urge health workers to raise their standards.

In an effort to improve maternal and child health, Tanzanian authorities implemented a pay for performance (P4P) scheme in 2009. The more women the health workers convinced to give birth at health facilities, the bigger bonus they would get. The number of women giving birth at health facilities did increase, but the new scheme also had adverse effects.

Korrupsjon og skatteunndragelse i Tanzania: En studie av Tanzania Revenue Authority Odd-Helge Fjeld

Widespread tax evasion reflected in persistent public resistance to pay is seen as part of the problem of raising local government revenues ...

The main objective of this brief report is to present the lessons learned and the main findings from six case studies of large scale mining ...

This brief examines changes in citizens' perceptions of local taxation over time in Tanzania based on survey data from 2003 and 2006. It ...

This paper examines recent experiences with outsourced revenue collection to private agents in local government authorities in Tanzania. Based ...