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Measuring Manufacturing Performance in Tanzania: GDP, Employment and Comparative Labour Productivity, 1961–95

In: The Industrial Experience of Tanzania

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  • Adam Szirmai

    (Eindhoven University of Technology)

  • Menno Prins

    (Eindhoven University of Technology/ERICSSON)

  • Wessel Schulte

    (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Abstract

Tanzania is a late late-comer to the process of industrialization: the first steps towards industrialization were taken after World War II. These took the form of processing for export markets. The expansion of manufacturing activities for the local market started in the mid-1950s. This late start is illustrated by the modest numbers of manufacturing establishments in Table 3.1. Of the establishments with ten or more persons engaged in operation in 1961, only 101 predated 1945. Including small scale establishments, the number of establishments in 1933 was 321 (Silver, 1984, p. 42). According to official figures, the manufacturing sector contributed 3.5 per cent to GDP at factor cost in 1961 (Central Statistical Bureau, 1964b).1 Since independence, the number of establishments increased sharply to 569 by 1965, peaking at 1282 in 1978 and subsequently declining to 886 establishments in 1989. In 1961, the large- and medium-scale manufacturing sector (10+) employed 22,000 persons. Manufacturing employment increased to 110,000 in 1978, in which year the sector registered a peak share of 12 per cent of GDP. In 1989 employment in medium- and largescale manufacturing had increased to 124,000 persons, while its share in GDP dropped to 8 per cent.

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  • Adam Szirmai & Menno Prins & Wessel Schulte, 2001. "Measuring Manufacturing Performance in Tanzania: GDP, Employment and Comparative Labour Productivity, 1961–95," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adam Szirmai & Paul Lapperre (ed.), The Industrial Experience of Tanzania, chapter 3, pages 73-113, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52451-4_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230524514_4
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