Tanzania

This paper examines Tanzania’s 2002 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and a Request for an Extension of the Arrangement and Waiver of Performance Criterion. Tanzania’s performance under the PRGF-supported program has been broadly on track. All the qualitative performance criteria through end-June 2002 were observed, but quantitative benchmarks on reserve money, extrabudgetary expenditure, and the accumulation of domestic budgetary arrears were not met. One structural performance criterion, relating to the amendment of legislation to tighten approval procedures for incurring or guaranteeing new foreign borrowing, was not observed.Economic conditions;Article IV consultations;Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility;expenditure, debt relief, expenditure management, balance of payments, public expenditure, national debt, debt service, net present value of debt, debt strategy, external debt, public debt, current account, expenditures, national debt strategy, domestic financing, fiscal policy, debt management, total expenditure, public expenditure management, poverty-reducing expenditure, current account deficit, recurrent expenditure, public debt management, foreign debt, public financial management, debt sustainability, government expenditure, debt management committee, current account balance, commercial creditors, national debt management, public finance, domestic debt, debt data, debt service payments, public expenditure review, repayments, bilateral agreements, external payments arrears, government debt, external financing, budgetary expenditure, debt sustainability analysis, external payments, external debt indicators, annual public expenditure, foreign loans, expenditure controls, public spending, mtef, central bank, bilateral donors, expenditure tracking, public and publicly guaranteed, central government expenditure, expenditure programs, expenditure data, medium-term expenditure framework, payment arrears, external debt data, public expenditure reviews, budget system, reserve assets, debt coordination, government loans, expenditure needs, domestic debt market, domestic debt market developments, composition of expenditure, poverty-reducing expenditures, items of expenditures, expenditure tracking surveys, domestic saving, expenditure control, public and publicly guaranteed debt, long-term debt sustainability, bilateral agreement, debt stocks, capital expenditure, private sector debt, expenditure reform, commercial debt, domestic savings, debt relief initiative, expenditure projections, debt reports, actual debt, total external debt, debt stock, public expenditures, capital account liberalization, external debt service, long-term debt, expenditure framework, external disbursements, debt market, categories of debts, sector expenditure, general resources account, long-term debts, participatory public expenditure, foreign aid, recurrent expenditures