Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Background -- Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations -- Notes -- Matrix of Recommendations -- Chapter 1 Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania -- Women and Men in the Tanzanian Economy -- Nonmarket Work and Time Use -- Gender and Growth-Macro- and Microperspectives -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Starting and Closing a Business -- The Costs of Starting a Business -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Access to Land and Site Development -- Property Rights -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Access to Finance -- Constraints of Limited Access to Finance -- Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) -- Formal Financing -- Reform of the System for Registration of Securities over Movable Assets -- Asset Leasing -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Operating a Business-Taxation, Infrastructure, and Access to Day Care -- Problems with Tax Administration -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Labor Laws-How They Affect Women -- Gender Gaps in Opportunity -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Access to Commercial Justice -- Legal Mechanisms -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Access to International Trade -- Tanzania's Benefits from Increased Trade -- Key Recommendations -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Way Forward -- Working with Partners to Bring About Reform -- Entry Points for Reform -- Moving Ahead -- Note -- Appendix 1 Notes on Data and Methodology for the Gender and Growth Chapter -- Capturing Men's and Women's Economic Roles -- Analysis of Gender and Growth Linkages -- Notes -- References -- Boxes -- 1.1 Labor in Zanzibar -- 1.2 Household Tasks, Time Use, and Entrepreneurship in Tanzania -- 1.3 Population Growth in Tanzania -- 1.4 The Cost of Different Gender Roles in Agriculture-A Tanzania Case Study.

2.1 Key Company Law Reforms in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand -- 2.2 Proposed Draft Policy on Licensing -- 3.1 Land: Formal Legal Rights for Women -- 3.2 Formal Rights of a Nonowning Spouse over the Matrimonial Home -- 3.3 Rights on Divorce under the Law of Marriage Act -- 3.4 Case Laws Upholding Women's Property Rights -- 4.1 Tanzania's Financial System -- 4.2 Microfinance Transforming Lives-The Example of the Faraja Trust -- 4.3 Tanzanian Women's Constraints to Accessing Finance -- 4.4 Problems with the Chattels Transfer Act -- 4.5 Benefits of Secured Transactions Reform -- 4.6 Advantages of Leasing Offers -- 4.7 Sero Lease and Finance-Demonstrating the Benefits of Leasing -- 6.1 Employment Law in Tanzania -- 6.2 Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs)-Improving the Empirical Basis for Regulatory Decisions -- 7.1 Constraints to Enforcing Justice in Tanzania -- 7.2 Hermelinda Herman v. Thadeo Mutarubukwa -- 7.3 TAWLA: Representing Women's Rights -- 8.1 Trade in the MKUKUTA -- 8.2 Fair Trade, Advocacy, and Limited Market Access Due to Lack of Finance-The Case of TAWOMA -- 8.3 Women May Not Benefit from the Product of Their Labor -- 8.4 Market Access-Linkages with Private Investors Do Not Always Improve Women's Economic Status in the Value Chain-The Case of Kiwengwa Seaweed Farmers in Zanzibar -- 8.5 Women Can Benefit from the Tourism Industry Too-The Example of the Agape Women Group -- 8.6 Creating Linkages for Women in the Value Chain-The Case of the Kidichi Spices Company in Zanzibar -- 8.7 Intellectual Property Rights in Kenya -- 9.1 Women's Advocacy as a Means for Creating Legislative Change -- 9.2 Gender Impact Analysis through the BEST Program -- Figures -- 1 Percentages of Properties and Businesses Operating Extralegally in Tanzania -- 2 Women's Participation in Tanzania's Economy -- 3 Banking Profile in Tanzania.

1.1 Tanzania Transport Tasks -- 2.1 Percentages of Businesses Operating and Properties Held Extralegally in Tanzania -- 2.2 Registration Costs Have a Relatively Larger Impact on Micro-Businesses -- 3.1 Female Farmers in Zanzibar North-Access to Productive Resources -- 4.1 Banking Profile in Tanzania -- 4.2 Difficulty of Getting Credit -- 5.1 Lower Childcare Costs Put More Women in the Labor Market, and More Girls in School -- Tables -- 1 Percentage of Currently Employed Persons, by Employment Status -- 2 International Benchmarking: Company Formation -- 1.1 Economically Active Population, by Sex, 2000-01 -- 1.2 Distribution of Currently Employed Persons, by Sex and Sector, 2000-01 -- 1.3 Percentage of Currently Employed Persons, by Employment Status -- 1.4 Wage Employment, by Sex in Selected Sectors, 2001 -- 1.5 Division of Labor in Agriculture -- 1.6 Distribution of Currently Employed Persons in the Rural Labor Force, by Sex and Status -- 1.7 Mean Monthly Income of Paid Employees, by Sex and Sector, 2000-01 -- 1.8 Net School Enrollment Ratios and Average Years of Schooling, by Gender -- 1.9 Estimates of the Impact on GDP Growth of Bringing Female Secondary Schooling, and Female Total Years of Schooling to the Same Level as that of Males (%) -- 2.1 International Benchmarking: Company Formation -- 4.1 Few Women and Men in Tanzania Access Banking Services -- 4.2 International Benchmarking: Doing Business in 2007-Ease of Getting Credit Indicators -- 7.1 Cost of Enforcing a Contract in Selected Commonwealth Countries -- 8.1 Composition of Exports -- A1.1 Main and Secondary Activities of Adults in the Last Seven Days (HBS 2000/01).