The fourth annual report of a survey of business leaders in Tanzania prepared to highlightpriorities for action to improve the business enabling environment, reveals that the factors that make it difficult for businesses to geton with running and growing their business, in order, are:
Power‚
§ Roads‚
§ Corruption‚
§ Water.
Power is consistently the biggest problem with roads regularly second.Corruption, which had fallen in 2010, is back to being a major issue. Water,which was not cited as a particular problem until 2010 is now seeminglyworse. Access to finance has dropped a bit, though policy makers should notbe complacent as it is still an issue.
The report was commissioned by BEST-AC whose role is to support privatesector organisations (PSOs) to engage in private public dialogue and toadvocate change in public policy with the objective to improve the businessenvironment in Tanzania.
Business leaders were asked about The enabling environment factors that are important to their business; The factors that make it difficult to do business; The non-tariff barriers that are relevant to their business; The non-tariff barriers that cause problems for their business; Their perception of whether and, if so, how, government is addressingeach factor; Their view of whether each factor would be likely to deter futureinvestment; and An assessment of the costs involved in meeting the requirement ofregulation and red tape.
Access full report here- http://www.best-ac.org/business-leaders-perceptions-report/