Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania

This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, we describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a challenging business environment. However, about one-third of rural...

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Main Authors:	Kinda, Tidiane, Loening, Josef L.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Capital Budgeting Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies G310 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures Other Public Investment and Capital Stock H540 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4633

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spelling	okr-10986-46332021-04-23T14:02:18Z Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania Kinda, Tidiane Loening, Josef L. Capital Budgeting Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies G310 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures Other Public Investment and Capital Stock H540 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420 This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, we describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a challenging business environment. However, about one-third of rural enterprises are growing fast. Most enterprises engage in agricultural trade. Due to a rapidly growing agricultural sector in recent years, limiting demand-side constraints, rural enterprise constraints in Tanzania mainly operate from the supply-side, suggesting that in particular access to finance, road infrastructure and rural cell phone communication is associated with employment growth. A major finding is that subjective and objective measurements of business constraints are broadly comparable. We discuss a number of factors that would help to unleash the full potential of private sector-led growth in rural areas. Marginal improvements of the rural investment climate matter for growth. 2012-03-30T07:28:57Z 2012-03-30T07:28:57Z 2010 Journal Article African Development Review/Revue Africaine de Developpement 10176772 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4633 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Tanzania
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topic	Capital Budgeting Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies G310 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures Other Public Investment and Capital Stock H540 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420
spellingShingle	Capital Budgeting Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies G310 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures Other Public Investment and Capital Stock H540 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Transportation Systems: Government and Private Investment Analysis Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning R420 Kinda, Tidiane Loening, Josef L. Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania
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description	This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, we describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a challenging business environment. However, about one-third of rural enterprises are growing fast. Most enterprises engage in agricultural trade. Due to a rapidly growing agricultural sector in recent years, limiting demand-side constraints, rural enterprise constraints in Tanzania mainly operate from the supply-side, suggesting that in particular access to finance, road infrastructure and rural cell phone communication is associated with employment growth. A major finding is that subjective and objective measurements of business constraints are broadly comparable. We discuss a number of factors that would help to unleash the full potential of private sector-led growth in rural areas. Marginal improvements of the rural investment climate matter for growth.
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author	Kinda, Tidiane Loening, Josef L.
author_facet	Kinda, Tidiane Loening, Josef L.
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title	Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania
title_short	Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania
title_full	Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania
title_fullStr	Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed	Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania
title_sort	small enterprise growth and the rural investment climate: evidence from tanzania
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Small Enterprise Growth and the Rural Investment Climate: Evidence from Tanzania

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