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Chart of the week #8: Democracy in Tanzania, according to Afrobarometer
More from the excellent Afrobarometer surveys this week, from the latest report on their 2012 surveys. The topic is democracy. First, what is the demand for democracy in different parts of Africa? This...
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When water doesn’t spout from money: the challenge of water provision in...
This blogpost was originally published on the Ideas for Africa blog, run by the International Growth Centre (IGC) of the London School of Economics and Oxford University. It is co-written with Ruth...
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Media freedom in Tanzania, in numbers
For World Press Freedom Day, (which is today), here are two charts drawing on global indexes of media freedom: First, US-based Freedom House released their Freedom of the Press 2014 report this week....
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Chart of the week #9: Killings due to witchcraft beliefs in Tanzania
How many people are killed each year in Tanzania due to witchcraft beliefs? Source: Tanzania Human Rights Reports, 2010-2013 This chart is based on data from police reports and compiled in the annual...
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Health check: How do Tanzania’s health services rate?
My colleagues on Twaweza’s Sauti za Wananchi mobile phone-based surveys are scaling up their output this year, in a big way. After the fascinating briefs they launched in last month on water supplies...
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Chart of the week #10: Uwezo test pass rates by country and subject
Uwezo released their latest report last week, looking at learning outcomes across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They surveyed well over 300,000 children aged 6 to 16, across all but a handful of...
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Chart of the week #10: e-tax in Kinondoni
Kinondoni Council published a statement a couple of weeks ago claiming some remarkable gains in their tax revenue, resulting from their adoption of electronic means of tax collection. They’ve set up...
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On image and open minds in Tanzanian politics – links I liked
Two fascinating articles attracted my attention this week, both on aspects of Tanzanian politics that don’t get as much attention as perhaps they should. I encourage you to read both original posts in...
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Chart of the week #11: Who supports CCM and Chadema, by age?
Source: Afrobarometer.org, data from 2012 The trend is clear: Chadema’s support is much stronger among younger Tanzanians (33%) than older Tanzanians (14%) CCM’s support goes the other way: much...
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Trade, tax and superhero number crunchers
For the bean-counters shall inherit the earth, as I’m sure somebody once said. Accountants have a clever trick – the unscrupulous ones – to keep the rest of us fooled. By making something sound as...
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