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Tanzania Mainland Poverty AssessmentSince the early 2000s, Tanzania has seen
 remarkable economic growth and strong resilience to external
 shocks. Yet these achievements were overshadowed by the slow
 response of poverty to the growing economy. Until 2007, the
 poverty rate in Tanzania remained stagnant at around 34
 percent despite a robust growth at an annualized rate of
 approximately 7 percent. This apparent disconnect between
 growth and poverty reduction has raised concerns among
 policy makers and researchers, leading to a consensus that
 this mismatch needed to be addressed with a sense of
 urgency. Over the past few years, the National Strategy for
 Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) in Tanzania has
 given high priority to eradicating extreme poverty and
 promoting broad-based growth. Achieving pro-poor growth has
 also been widely recognized by the World Bank as a critical
 strategy for accelerating progress toward its twin goals of
 eliminating extreme poverty at the global level by 2030 and
 boosting shared prosperity by fostering income growth among
 the bottom 40 percent in every country. The official poverty
 figures announced by the government in November 2013 have
 revealed that the national strategy against poverty has
 begun to facilitate reductions. The basic needs poverty rate
 has declined from around 34 percent to 28.2 percent between
 2007 and 2012, the first significant decline in the last 20
 years. Identifying the policy mechanisms that have helped to
 increase the participation of the poor in the growth process
 and to speed pro-poor growth is therefore important for
 present and future decision-making in Tanzania on how best
 to eradicate poverty. Such task requires a rigorous analysis
 of the evolution of poverty and of the linkages between
 poverty, inequality, and economic growth. This report uses
 the availability of the new Tanzanian Household Budget
 Survey (HBS) for 2011 and 2012, as well as the new rebased
 GDP figures released in December 2014, as an opportunity to
 address these issues. More specifically, the report examines
 the recent trends in poverty and inequality and their
 determinants and explores how responsive poverty reduction
 was to economic growth and the obstacles to achieving it.
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Zambia Poverty Assessment : Stagnant Poverty and Inequality in a Natural Resource-Based EconomyAs in many countries throughout
 Sub-Saharan Africa and around the developing world, poverty
 in Zambia is overwhelmingly a rural phenomenon. In 2010 the
 moderate poverty rate in rural areas was 74 percent, more
 than double the urban poverty rate of 35 percent. The
 economic growth continued throughout the decade, reaching an
 impressive annual average of 5.7 percent, and by 2011 the
 World Bank recognized Zambia as a middle-income country.
 Rising incomes have been densely concentrated among a
 relatively small segment of the urban workforce, while
 extremely high urban unemployment rates effectively block
 the rural labor force from participating in the
 country's more dynamic economic sectors, a phenomenon
 that is discussed in detail in this analysis. The principal
 challenge faced by Zambian policymakers and the
 international donor community will be to extend the returns
 to growth throughout the country and especially to the rural
 poor. Marginal improvements in economic and social
 indicators can be accomplished through targeted
 interventions in the rural economy, but enduring, structural
 income growth and the widespread reduction of poverty will
 only be achievable through broad-based employment creation
 in the urban industrial and service sectors. This report is
 organized as follows: chapter one discusses poverty and
 inequality; chapter two gives poverty profile; chapter three
 discusses labor market, employment, and wages; and chapter
 four focuses on poverty and social spending.
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Tanzania Poverty AssessmentSince the early 2000s, Tanzania has seen remarkable economic growth and strong resilience to external shocks. Yet these achievements were overshadowed by the slow response of poverty to the growing economy. Until 2007, the poverty rate in Tanzania remained stagnant at around 34 percent despite a robust growth at an annualized rate of approximately 7 percent. This apparent disconnect between growth and poverty reduction has raised concerns among policy makers and researchers, leading to a consensus that this mismatch needed to be addressed with a sense of urgency. Over the past few years, the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) in Tanzania has given high priority to eradicating extreme poverty and promoting broad-based growth. Achieving pro-poor growth has also been widely recognized by the World Bank as a critical strategy for accelerating progress toward its twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty at the global level by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity by fostering income growth among the bottom 40 percent in every country. The official poverty figures announced by the government in November 2013 have revealed that the national strategy against poverty has begun to facilitate reductions. The basic needs poverty rate has declined from around 34 percent to 28.2 percent between 2007 and 2012, the first significant decline in the last 20 years. Identifying the policy mechanisms that have helped to increase the participation of the poor in the growth process and to speed pro-poor growth is therefore important for present and future decision-making in Tanzania on how best to eradicate poverty. Such task requires a rigorous analysis of the evolution of poverty and of the linkages between poverty, inequality, and economic growth. This report uses the availability of the new Tanzanian Household Budget Survey (HBS) for 2011 and 2012, as well as the new rebased GDP figures released in December 2014, as an opportunity to address these issues. More specifically, the report examines the recent trends in poverty and inequality and their determinants and explores how responsive poverty reduction was to economic growth and the obstacles to achieving it.