Tanzania Needs to Go From USD 95 Billion to USD 1 Trillion in 25 Years. The Arithmetic Is Straightforward, Everything Else Is Not.

ECONOMY

Tanzania Needs to Go From USD 95 Billion to USD 1 Trillion in 25 Years. The Arithmetic Is Straightforward, Everything Else Is Not.

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Tanzania Is Building a USD 1 Trillion Economy. The CAG Has Just Documented the Distance Between That Ambition and the Institutional Reality. Both Can Be True Simultaneously.

ECONOMY

Tanzania Is Building a USD 1 Trillion Economy. The CAG Has Just Documented the Distance Between That Ambition and the Institutional Reality. Both Can Be True Simultaneously.

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Dar es Salaam Is Adding 500,000 People a Year and Running Out of Water at the Same Time. The Kidunda Dam Is the Missing Piece.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Dar es Salaam Is Adding 500,000 People a Year and Running Out of Water at the Same Time. The Kidunda Dam Is the Missing Piece.

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The Isaka-Kigali SGR Is the Most Important Railway Rwanda Has Never Built. The Financing Gap Between the Vision and the Track Is the Honest Story.

REGIONAL ECONOMY

The Isaka-Kigali SGR Is the Most Important Railway Rwanda Has Never Built. The Financing Gap Between the Vision and the Track Is the Honest Story.

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France Is Pivoting to Anglophone Africa. Before Africa Celebrates, It Should Ask Why Francophone Africa Is Being Left Behind.

REGIONAL ECONOMY

France Is Pivoting to Anglophone Africa. Before Africa Celebrates, It Should Ask Why Francophone Africa Is Being Left Behind.

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Tanzania Needs to Go From USD 95 Billion to USD 1 Trillion in 25 Years. The Arithmetic Is Straightforward, Everything Else Is Not.

ECONOMY

Tanzania Needs to Go From USD 95 Billion to USD 1 Trillion in 25 Years. The Arithmetic Is Straightforward, Everything Else Is Not.

Tanzania Is Building a USD 1 Trillion Economy. The CAG Has Just Documented the Distance Between That Ambition and the Institutional Reality. Both Can Be True Simultaneously.

ECONOMY

Tanzania Is Building a USD 1 Trillion Economy. The CAG Has Just Documented the Distance Between That Ambition and the Institutional Reality. Both Can Be True Simultaneously.

Dar es Salaam Is Adding 500,000 People a Year and Running Out of Water at the Same Time. The Kidunda Dam Is the Missing Piece.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Dar es Salaam Is Adding 500,000 People a Year and Running Out of Water at the Same Time. The Kidunda Dam Is the Missing Piece.

The Isaka-Kigali SGR Is the Most Important Railway Rwanda Has Never Built. The Financing Gap Between the Vision and the Track Is the Honest Story.

REGIONAL ECONOMY

The Isaka-Kigali SGR Is the Most Important Railway Rwanda Has Never Built. The Financing Gap Between the Vision and the Track Is the Honest Story.

France Is Pivoting to Anglophone Africa. Before Africa Celebrates, It Should Ask Why Francophone Africa Is Being Left Behind.

Apr 10 • Geopolitics & Strategy

Tanzania Has 59 Documented Challenges Hindering Its Business Environment and 246 Reform Actions to Fix Them. Prof. Kitila Mkumbo Is Saying This Out Loud, and That Is the News.

Apr 8 • Risk Analysis

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The World Bank Just Changed Its Mind on Industrial Policy. Africa Has a Narrow Window to Act.

ECONOMY

The World Bank Just Changed Its Mind on Industrial Policy. Africa Has a Narrow Window to Act.

Kenya Built LAPSSET to Win East Africa's Logistics Future. Tanzania May Have Already Won It.

REGIONAL ECONOMY

Kenya Built LAPSSET to Win East Africa's Logistics Future. Tanzania May Have Already Won It.

Dar es Salaam’s BRT Expansion Is Not About Traffic. It Is an Attempt to Reduce the Economic Cost of Movement Across Tanzania’s Core Urban Engine.

MOBILITY & LOGISTICS

Dar es Salaam’s BRT Expansion Is Not About Traffic. It Is an Attempt to Reduce the Economic Cost of Movement Across Tanzania’s Core Urban Engine.

The Daladala Was Broken. These Tanzanians Spent Five Years Fixing It.

MOBILITY & LOGISTICS

The Daladala Was Broken. These Tanzanians Spent Five Years Fixing It.

The Operating System Nobody Sees: How Kalebu Gwalugano Is Building the Infrastructure Layer That Tanzania's Digital Economy Has Been Missing

Mar 24 • Innovators

China Did Not Just Become Africa's Biggest Trading Partner. It Became the Architecture That African Trade Runs Through. That Is a Different Problem Entirely.

Mar 31 • World Economy

Tanzania’s First Utility-Scale Solar Plant Signals a Quiet Shift in the Country’s Energy Strategy

Mar 15 • Renewable Energy

East Africa Could Become the World’s Next Battery Belt

Mar 22 • Energy & Resources

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Africa Wants Asia's Growth But Has Not Adopted Asia's System. The Difference Is Not Policy, It Is Enforcement.

REGIONAL ECONOMY

Africa Wants Asia's Growth But Has Not Adopted Asia's System. The Difference Is Not Policy, It Is Enforcement.

South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania Capture 64 Percent of Africa's Safari Demand as Average Visitor Spend Reaches $8,625

TOURISM

South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania Capture 64 Percent of Africa's Safari Demand as Average Visitor Spend Reaches $8,625

Air Tanzania Carried 1.18 Million Passengers Last Year. It Lost TZS 191 Billion Doing It. Costs Are Growing Faster Than Revenue on Every Single Metric.

ECONOMY

Air Tanzania Carried 1.18 Million Passengers Last Year. It Lost TZS 191 Billion Doing It. Costs Are Growing Faster Than Revenue on Every Single Metric.

Dar es Salaam Loses 53 Percent of Its Water Before Anyone Drinks It. The City Is Adding 500,000 People Every Year.

ECONOMY

Dar es Salaam Loses 53 Percent of Its Water Before Anyone Drinks It. The City Is Adding 500,000 People Every Year.

Tanzania's Tourism Revenue Grew 26 Percent to TZS 724 Billion. Inside the National Parks Generating That Revenue, Roads Are Unmaintained and Poaching Is Rising.

TOURISM

Tanzania's Tourism Revenue Grew 26 Percent to TZS 724 Billion. Inside the National Parks Generating That Revenue, Roads Are Unmaintained and Poaching Is Rising.

Tanzania's Pension Funds Are Owed TZS 1.29 Trillion by the Government. That Debt Has Been Outstanding for Approximately 18 Years. The Workers Whose Savings Are at Stake Do Not Know.

ECONOMY

Tanzania's Pension Funds Are Owed TZS 1.29 Trillion by the Government. That Debt Has Been Outstanding for Approximately 18 Years. The Workers Whose Savings Are at Stake Do Not Know.

Tanzania Has TZS 11 Billion in Mining Drilling Equipment Sitting Idle. The Asset Transfer From a Mining Company to STAMIGOLD Has Taken 12 Years and Is Still Incomplete.

ECONOMY

Tanzania Has TZS 11 Billion in Mining Drilling Equipment Sitting Idle. The Asset Transfer From a Mining Company to STAMIGOLD Has Taken 12 Years and Is Still Incomplete.

34 Tanzanian Public Institutions Have No Board of Directors. 77 Are Processing Money Outside the Government's Own Accounting System. This Is What Governance Failure Looks Like in Data.

ECONOMY

34 Tanzanian Public Institutions Have No Board of Directors. 77 Are Processing Money Outside the Government's Own Accounting System. This Is What Governance Failure Looks Like in Data.

Tanzania's National Medical Stores Let TZS 18.74 Billion in Medicines Expire. The National Health Insurance Fund Enrolled 39 Percent of Its Target. These Are Not Health Statistics. They Are Economic Ones.

Apr 11 • Fiscal Policy

The Government Underfunded 87 Public Institutions by TZS 1.29 Trillion. Those Institutions Then Failed to Collect TZS 1.32 Trillion From Their Own Sources. Tanzania Has a Compounding Fiscal Gap at the Institutional Level.

Apr 11 • Fiscal Policy

Tanzania's Public Institutions Lost, Wasted, or Failed to Collect Over TZS 10 Trillion in a Single Year. The CAG Report Names Every One of Them.

Apr 10 • Fiscal Policy

Uganda Built a Modern Expressway Before the Economy Was Ready for It. That May Have Been Exactly the Right Decision.

Apr 10 • Mega Projects

Konza Technopolis Has Been Building for Fifteen Years. The Most Honest Assessment of Where It Stands Is in the Numbers Nobody Is Quoting.

Apr 10 • Mega Projects

Kigali's Traffic Problem Is Not a Transport Problem. It Is a Productivity Tax. The Sonatubes and Gishushu Interventions Are the Correct Diagnosis.

Apr 10 • Mega Projects

Kigali Innovation City Broke Ground in September 2024. The More Important Question Is Whether It Can Break the Dependency on Tea and Coffee.

Apr 10 • Mega Projects

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