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Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania

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  • Roosa Lambin
  • Milla Nyyssölä

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Expansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to increasingly expand social protection for informal workers. This paper examines the case of Tanzania by exploring the policy developments that have sought to facilitate access to social protection within the informal economy over the past 10-15 years, notably through the expansion of social insurance provision.

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  • Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä, 2022. "Incorporating informal workers into social insurance in Tanzania," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-84, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Informal sector; Tanzania; Social policy; Sub-Saharan Africa; Informal work;
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