This policy brief provides a framework of analysis regarding harnessing the global opportunities for enhancing productive capacities in Tanzania. It seeks to inform policy analysts, private sector practitioners, and decision makers in public institutions responsible for promoting economic growth, industrial development, investments, trade expansion, and private sector development. It is the ability these actors to address the various constraints to productivity growth that Tanzania can sustain its growth momentum, realize its development potential, and achieve significant poverty reduction.
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