Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania: A 20-year perspective

Abstract

This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project on 'The politics of group-based inequalities-measurement, implications, and possibilities for change' which is part of a larger research project on 'Disadvantaged groups and social mobility'.

Tracing the Relationships between Assets and Well-Being in Complex Social Environments

“…Rather it reveals the value of detailed data of this sort, and of measures with which we can understand better the dynamics of social change. Furthermore, with such data across sites that enjoy different levels of state investment in public goods, it would be possible to investigate the interactions between private wealth and public goods-dynamics that are critical to understand if Tanzania is to reduce its substantive, and in some instances increasing, regional inequalities (Maliti 2016).…”

“…Furthermore, as regards inequality-well recognized as impeding future economic growth and progress towards poverty reduction (e.g., Ravallion 2014), and now prioritized as one of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals to guide development over the next fifteen years-the picture is again mixed. Tanzanian society is showing widening wealth inequality between regions, gender, and the rural-urban divide (Maliti 2016, using DHS wealth data 2004, 2007, and both increasing and (latterly) decreasing horizontal inequality in education (Hassine andZeufack 2015, Maliti 2016, using HBS andDHS data respectively). Furthermore different dimensions of inequality (income, education, health, water, and sanitation, Maliti 2018) are both spatially and socially patterned.…”