Expert Researcher
Blandina Kilama works as a researcher at REPOA, a policy research institute based in Tanzania, in the areas of growth and development. She has done analytical research involving primary and secondary data. Her research includes poverty mapping, economic transformation, macroeconomics, agricultural development and post 2015 agenda. She holds a PhD from Leiden University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School
This paper focuses on the growth in aggregate production in Tanzania. It also deals with the division of GDP across productive sectors in the economy, population growth as well as labour force growth. The processes of economic transformation and struct …
This paper evaluates the concept of economic transformation and further investigates its relevance in the present day policy debates in Tanzania. The paper starts by taking a critical look at a homemade definition of economic transformation. A brief li …
“This brief examines the status of nutrition in Tanzania. Despite improvements between 1999 and 2004/05, data clearly show that the prevalence of child undernutrition remains high in Tanzania and malnutrition begins at an early age. Based on the eviden …
“This special paper provides a summary of the situation of nutrition in Tanzania, and an institutional analysis of the principal actors in nutrition nationally and locally. The paper argues the need to focus on prevention on malnutrition by protecting, …
