Population growth usually gets presented as a statistic. Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 treats it as an economic problem to be solved. The plan projects Tanzania's population ...
Competing for investment, not sympathy For decades, many developing countries treated foreign investment as a form of development assistance, arriving because a country needed it rather than because ...
In 2022, on LinkedIn, I drew parallels between the collapse of Evergrande, a property giant whose liabilities once dwarfed entire national budgets, and the quiet risks accumulating in markets like ...
The core argument emerging from the Northern Corridor discussions is that East Africa’s next phase of economic integration will be determined less by roads and border infrastructure alone and ...
For more than half a century, Tanzania's economy has been defined by what lies beneath its soil and grows on its land: gold, diamonds, natural gas, graphite, coffee, cashew nuts, cotton, tea, tourism.
The World Bank's Third Kenya Fiscal Sustainability and Resilient Growth Development Policy Operation is not a project loan. It does not finance a road, a hospital, or a power plant. It transfers money ...
Individually, Tanzania's mega projects look like a railway here, a port expansion there. Connected, they read as one deliberate logistics network built to serve landlocked neighbours as much as ...
Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 was launched alongside a separate document, the National Framework for Delivery and Performance Management of Development Plans, built ...
Tanzania's 58 airports and over 300 airstrips constitute one of the most geographically extensive aviation networks in Sub-Saharan Africa, regulated by the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority and ...
Every generation inherits a different economic question. In the 1960s, Tanzania asked how a newly independent nation could build an economy without foreign domination. In the 1980s, the question was ...
Tanzania approved USD 10.95 billion in investment capital in 2025. That number is not just a signal of growth but a map that every serious investor can follow. It shows where serious capital, both ...
A tonne of raw cotton is worth a fraction of the textiles it becomes. Tanzania's Vision 2050 isn't chasing more exports. It's chasing more valuable ones, betting that industrialisation and ...