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Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths

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  • Roosa Lambin
  • Milla Nyyssölä
  • Alexis Bernigaud

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Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women.

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  • Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä & Alexis Bernigaud, 2022. "Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-82, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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