Tanzania

State capacity to provide property titles is limited in developing countries. Evidence from Tanzania suggests that community information on the willingness-to-pay for titles can help low-capacity governments determine fees and improve property titlin...

Increasing women’s use of a digital financial service in Tanzania, mobile money, empowered women and led to improvements in women’s control over their finances.

A programme rewarding teachers for increasing their students’ foundational skills improved learning in public primary schools in Tanzania. A cheap and easy to communicate version of the programme was most (cost-)effective, and is currently being scal...

A low-touch information campaign in Tanzania improved farmers’ confidence in the quality of fertiliser, leading to an increase in purchases

Technological improvements alone are unlikely to modernise agriculture if farmers are uncertain about the quality of new innovations

Food scarcity decreases trust among Tanzanian farmers, reducing the resilience of affected communities

Insights from a year of smartphone app data suggest high levels of spatial mobility

Bundling genetic and financial technologies can make small-scale agriculture more resilient and productive

Interventions aimed at alleviating multiple constraints are often needed to achieve the desired impact