Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania

Poverty and destitution continue to be pervasive in development. Recent surveys have revealed that in Tanzania over fifty percent of the population still live in poverty and about one-tenth of the households are severely undernourished. In response to the world-wide growing concerns about poverty and since sustainable poverty reduction continues to be one of Tanzania's major development goals a long term research programme in Tanzania is proposed. A workshop as a first step was held in 1994 intended to establish consensus over the selected theme and sub-themes and to discuss and establish a broad-based but focused research agenda. The seven papers from the workshop form this book.