This policy brief flags areas of crucial policy concerns in the context of the prevailing legal and regulatory framework for enterprise development and competitiveness. It draws on analyses and findings from REPOA’s Research Project on Institutional Analysis of Enterprise Development and Competitiveness (EDC) in Tanzania. The research draws on analyses of primary and secondary data from the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) indicators, World Development Indicators (WDI), World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and the Annual Survey of Industrial Production data (ASIP).