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Poverty and Human Development Report 2009 - UNDP in Tanzania

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Table 41: Percent of All Households <strong>and</strong> Farm Households with Productive<br />

Assets, 2000/01 <strong>and</strong> 2007<br />

All households<br />

Plough Hoe<br />

Livestock<br />

(not poultry)<br />

Sew<strong>in</strong>g mach<strong>in</strong>e<br />

2000/1 2007 2000/01 2007 2000/01 2007 2000/01 2007<br />

dar es salaam 1 0 18 16 3 2 15 14<br />

other urban 2 2 56 57 14 15 14 12<br />

rural 11 10 92 88 45 41 3 4<br />

<strong>Tanzania</strong> Ma<strong>in</strong>l<strong>and</strong> 9 8 82 75 37 32 6 7<br />

Farm households only<br />

dar es salaam 1 0 72 75 7 9 9 16<br />

other urban 4 4 87 85 25 23 9 7<br />

rural 12 11 93 91 48 44 3 3<br />

<strong>Tanzania</strong> Ma<strong>in</strong>l<strong>and</strong> 11 10 93 90 45 42 4 3<br />

source: hBs 2007; hoogeveen et al., <strong>2009</strong><br />

Sav<strong>in</strong>gs<br />

sav<strong>in</strong>gs are held as cash, at home or <strong>in</strong> a bank account. table 42 shows that the percentage<br />

of households who operated a bank account <strong>and</strong> participated <strong>in</strong> a sav<strong>in</strong>gs group <strong>in</strong>creased<br />

between 2000/01 <strong>and</strong> 2007.<br />

Table 42: Percent of Households with One or More Members participat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />

Bank<strong>in</strong>g/Sav<strong>in</strong>gs Activities, 2000/01 <strong>and</strong> 2007<br />

2000/01 2007<br />

operates a sav<strong>in</strong>g/current account 6.4 10.0<br />

participates <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>formal sav<strong>in</strong>g group 3.8 7.8<br />

participates <strong>in</strong> any non-bank formal sav<strong>in</strong>gs group 1.9 4.8<br />

source: hBs 2007<br />

Chapter 2<br />

this may suggest that more money was saved <strong>in</strong> 2007 than 2000/1. however, given that prices<br />

<strong>in</strong>creased by 93% over the period, real <strong>in</strong>terest rates on sav<strong>in</strong>gs deposits were negative. for<br />

example, tshs 1,000 deposited <strong>in</strong> a 3-6 month fixed sav<strong>in</strong>gs account <strong>in</strong> 2000/01 would have<br />

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