{"id":7235,"date":"2019-12-18T10:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T07:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:46","slug":"poverty-declines-in-tanzania-over-past-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/18\/poverty-declines-in-tanzania-over-past-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Declines In Tanzania Over Past Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By East Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poverty is declining\nin Tanzania according to a new World Bank report, but nearly half the\npopulation still lives on less than $1.90 per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report, issued\nlast week, said that mainland Tanzania \u201crecorded sustained economic growth and\npoverty reduction over the past decade, (although) the poverty reducing impact\nof economic growth has been slowing down\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank said\nthat it had confirmed that the government\u2019s \u201cbasic needs poverty rate\u201d had\ndeclined from 34.4 per cent in 2007 to 28.2 per cent in 2012, and to a further\n26.4 per cent in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFurther reduction in\npoverty is welcome news,\u201d said Bella Bird, the World Bank country director for\nTanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. \u201cBut it is important to accelerate the\ntrend, as the number of the poor is still high, and the majority of Tanzanians\nare vulnerable to falling back into poverty at the slightest shock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank says\nthat there are \u201cemerging signs of a structural transformation\u201d in the economy\nthat can be seen in the increasing share of industry and services in total\nemployment. Agriculture is employing fewer workers, and those who remain in the\nsector are diversifying towards non-farm wage and self-employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith an increase in the economic returns outside agriculture, there is a growing need for investments in human capital especially among the poor and the vulnerable. Increasing access to productive employment opportunities is key to sustaining the momentum picked up during the past decade,\u201d Ms Bird said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Poverty-declines-in-Tanzania-over-past-decade\/2560-5389110-qoexpj\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By East Africa Poverty is declining in Tanzania according to a new World Bank report, but nearly half the population still lives on less than $1.90 per day. The report,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}