Quality of life and quality of food

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, internet usage in Tanzania has increased. Statistics from the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority show that internet subscribing numbers grew to 29 million (March 2021) users from 28 million in December 2019. There is a growing dependency on the internet for day-to-day activities.

Government leadership at both the national and sub-national levels is an essential step towards ensuring safely managed sanitation services for all. Though the importance of sub-national government leadership for water, sanitation and hygiene is widely acknowledged, to date much of the focus has been on the delivery of water services.

This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania.

This paper evaluates the appropriateness of the tax policymaking process that led to the introduction, and the later adaptation, of a tax on mobile money transactions in Uganda in 2018. The authors examine the unusual source of the proposal, how this particular tax diverged from the usual tax policymaking process, and whether certain key stakeholders were excluded.

How should policies to control the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic differ across countries? We extend recent contributions integrating economic and epidemiological models for the United States to a developing country context, Uganda. Differences in demography, comorbidities, and health systems affect mortality risk; lower incomes affect agents’ willingness to forego consumption to reduce disease risk.