Biofuels and economic development in Tanzania
| dc.creator | Arndt, Channing | |
| dc.creator | Pauw, Karl | |
| dc.creator | Thurlow, James | |
| dc.date | 2010 | |
| dc.date | 2024-10-01T13:55:40Z | |
| dc.date | 2024-10-01T13:55:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T15:18:26Z | |
| dc.description | Biofuels provide a new opportunity to enhance economic development in Tanzania. Drawing on detailed cost estimates, we develop a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to estimate the impact of different biofuel production scenarios on growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania requires engaging and improving the productivity of smallholder farmers. Evidence shows that cassava-based ethanol production is more profitable than other feedstock options. Our findings also indicate that cassava generates higher levels of pro-poor growth than do sugarcane-based systems. However, if smallholder yields can be improved rather than expanding cultivated land, then sugarcane and cassava outgrower schemes can produce similar pro-poor outcomes. We conclude that in so far as the public investments needed to establish a biofuels industry in Tanzania are in accordance with national development plans, producing biofuels will contribute to achieving the country's overall development objectives. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153125 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/100637 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dc.relation | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2012.07.020 | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Arndt, Channing; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James. 2010. Biofuels and economic development in Tanzania. IFPRI Discussion Paper 966. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153125 | |
| dc.subject | biofuels | |
| dc.subject | growth | |
| dc.subject | poverty | |
| dc.subject | computable general equilibrium models | |
| dc.subject | cassava | |
| dc.title | Biofuels and economic development in Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Working Paper |