Browsing by Author "Bilame, Odass"

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    Accounting for environmental resources in Tanzania
    (2022) Bilame, Odass
    This paper has gone a long way to shedding light on how Tanzania accounts for environmental/natural resources destruction in the calculation of the national income or GDP with a view to avoiding an ecological/biodiversity bankruptcy and in so doing attaining greener economic growth. Green growth is nothing more than growth that improves the welfare of both current and future generations and that acknowledges the social costs and benefits of growth and its distributional implications in both the short and the long run. To say the least, Tanzania has not been taking into account environmental/natural resource destruction in the calculation of the national income. Economic growth that has been sustained by Tanzania has not been green growth, since it has been attained at the expense of environment/natural resources destruction, for which, no deductions of the cost to the environmental resources have not been made. Failure to account properly for the natural resource destruction that occurs in the process of national income generation makes the GNP unrealistic. Under such a scenario where omissions of environmental destruction in the calculation of the national income make the country an ecological bankrupt, even if its GDP may be rising is unrealistic.
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    Accounting for environmental resources in Tanzania: A theoretical review
    (IARIW-TNBS, 2022) Bilame, Odass
    This paper has gone a long way to shedding light on how Tanzania accounts for environmental/natural resources destruction in the calculation of the national income or GDP with a view to avoiding an ecological/biodiversity bankruptcy and in so doing attaining greener economic growth. Green growth is nothing more than growth that improves the welfare of both current and future generations and that acknowledges the social costs and benefits of growth and its distributional implications in both the short and the long run. To say the least, Tanzania has not been taking into account environmental/natural resource destruction in the calculation of the national income. Economic growth that has been sustained by Tanzania has not been green growth, since it has been attained at the expense of environment/natural resources destruction, for which, no deductions of the cost to the environmental resources have not been made. Failure to account properly for the natural resource destruction that occurs in the process of national income generation makes the GNP unrealistic. Under such a scenario where omissions of environmental destruction in the calculation of the national income make the country an ecological bankrupt, even if its GDP may be rising is unrealistic
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    Inclusive Green Growth and Shared Prosperity: Are they Basic Indictors for Tanzania to Attain an Upper Middle-Income Country? A Theoretical Review
    (Tanzanian Institutes of Development Studies, 2023) Bilame, Odass
    This paper aims to show how inclusive green growth and shared prosperity could be sustained, and in a way enable Tanzania to achieve an upper middle-income country status. The big question in this regard is whether the kind of economic growth that Tanzania has been sustaining over the recent years, at least before the COVID-19 pandemic, has been associated with ‘inclusive green growth’ and with a ‘shared prosperity’ or otherwise. The main objective of this paper sought to shed light on the extent to which inclusive green growth and shared prosperity could be sustained and enable the country to attain an upper middle-income country status with traceable welfare effects for all Tanzanians. The methodology employed was a documentary review of various documents that address issues on inclusive green growth and shared prosperity. In particular, a review of publications by the World Bank occupied a central place. Key study results point out that the kind of growth agenda that Tanzania has pursued has neither addressed inclusive green growth nor shared prosperity. The development agenda has been addressing economic growth concerns at the expense of green growth concerns that acknowledge the role of natural capital growth and its important role in the welfare of future generations.