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The Determinants of the Commercial Banks Profitability in Tanzania: Panel Evidence
The objective of this paper is to establish the macroeconomic and bank specific (internal) determinants of profitability for 18 Tanzanian commercial banks for the period (2000 – 2011) making 216 observations. The study ...
Publishing Date: 2015
Publisher: European Journal of Business and Management
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Document type: Journal
The Practice of Preparing and Using Financial Information in Financial Decisions: A Survey of SMEs in Tanzania
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Tanzania make poor financial decisions due to lack of, or misuse of financial information. The study analyzed the purpose and practice of preparing financial information, its utilization ...
Publishing Date: 2013
Publisher: European Journal of Business and Management
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Document type: Journal
The Factors Affecting Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Developing Countries: The Case of Tanzania
This study intends to analyze the factors that affect the GDP of Developing Countries such as Tanzania. A Keynesian model was adopted to be tested in Tanzanian GDP from 1970 to 2009. Statistical software and multivariate ...
Publishing Date: 2013
Publisher: European Journal of Business and Management
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Document type: Journal
Supply Chain Management and Challenges Facing the Food Industry Sector in Tanzania
Compared to multinational food companies operating in Tanzania, local firms have been performing inefficiently or going out of the business because they could not withstand the competition. Supply Chain Management (SCM) ...
Publishing Date: 2009-12
Publisher: Glorious School of Business and Management, Donghua University
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Document type: Journal
What Growth Pattern is needed to achieve the objective of Tanzania’s Development Vision–2025?
The Tanzania Development Vision (TV) 2025 portrays an image of the country transformed from low productivity to a semi-industrialised economy led by high productivity in all relevant sectors. This paper analyses the growth ...
Publishing Date: 2014
Publisher: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM)
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Document type: Research report
Dynamite fishing turning Indian Ocean into swimming pool
The illegal practice of dynamite fishing has disrupted the ecosystem in the Indian ocean surrounding Songo Songo island. Schools of fish are being killed or stunned by the blasts while coral reefs are being destroyed, ...
Publishing Date: 2016-11-07
Publisher: The Guardian
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Document type: Newspaper article
The Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Tanzania: Challenges and the Way Forward
Tanzania’s industrial sector has evolved through various stages since independence in 1961 following state-led import substitution industrialization, and subsequent de-industrialization under the structural adjustment ...
Publishing Date: 2014
Publisher: Africa Growth Initiative
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Document type: Research report
Viable approaches for advancing rural livelihoods through agriculture in Tanzania
Poverty is essentially a rural phenomenon in Tanzania where about 37.6% of the people are poor; and 18.4% are food poor. The study analyses crop chain and livelihoods in one pure cash-crop and one mixed crop; tobacco and ...
Publishing Date: 2016-04-10
Publisher: Excellent publishers
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Document type: Journal
Graduate Entrepreneurship in Tanzania: Contextual Enablers and Hindrances
Graduate self-employment is declining, in spite of entrepreneurial education at universities. This journal aims at explaining the hindrances and enablers to most Tanzanian graduate entrepreneurs, categorised according to ...
Publishing Date: 2012
Publisher: Euro Journals Publishing, Inc.
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Document type: Journal
Biofuel production: Lessons from Brazil
This newspaper article sheds light on Brazil’s biofuel industry. It has grown by using half of the national annual sugarcane to produce 24 billion litres of ethanol to power 12.5 million vehicles, employing up to 1.2 million ...
Publishing Date: 2011-06-25
Publisher: The Guardian
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Document type: Newspaper article