Social Security Provision and Social Welfare in Tanzania: Reflections and Possibilities For Social Security to the Informal Sector

Abstract

Social security provision in developing countries may sound alien. These countries were used to conventional structures of social protection from the family and kinship. Liberalization of their economies eroded the traditional practices of providing social protection, and hence the desire to create new structures to complement the practice. The liberalized economies structure for social protection covers only the contributory schemes in the formal sector in Tanzania. This paper attempts to explore the possibility of enhancing those who cannot contribute to the protection of formal structures so that they contribute in a micro schedule compatible to their social economic status.