GOVERNMENT POLICY

The Poor Pay More. How Africa's Failure to Industrialise Has Locked Millions Into a Poverty Cycle That No Wage Growth Can Break.

The import price premium that African consumers pay for manufactured goods, vehicles, refrigerators,...

May 17 19 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Tanzania’s Mining Local Content Rules Are Not Red Tape. They Are the Price of Entry

Tanzania’s mining sector is no longer governed by the old investment bargain in which capital, lic...

May 1 9 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

The Economics of STI in Tanzania: Beyond Policy Rhetoric to Real Investment

For years, Tanzania has spoken of transforming into a knowledge-driven economy. Government plans rep...

Aug 26 3 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Why Vision 2050 Is Really A Plan To Turn Tanzania Into East Africa's Production Hub

Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 reads less as a growth strategy and more as ...

Aug 4 6 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

The Most Radical Part of Vision 2050 Is Not The Economy. It Is That Tanzania Finally Has a Long-Term National Strategy.

Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 addresses a structural failure common across...

Aug 4 6 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

From Ujamaa To Investment: How Tanzania's Development Philosophy Has Changed Over Six Decades

Tanzania's development philosophy has moved through distinct eras, Nyerere's Arusha Declaration (196...

Aug 4 7 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Why Investment Alone Is No Longer Enough: Inside Tanzania's New 3I Economic Strategy

Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 introduces a 3I Strategy, Investment, Infusi...

Aug 4 6 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Tanzania Has Changed How Government Will Be Measured. Delivery Is Now The National Strategy.

Alongside Vision 2050's launch, Tanzania introduced the National Framework for Delivery and Performa...

Aug 4 5 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Tanzania Lets in Citizens of 20 African Countries and 31 Commonwealth Nations Without a Visa. Here's the Full List.

Tanzania's Immigration Services Department maintains one of East Africa's broadest visa-exemption re...

Jul 21 6 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Government Wants Business to Build Tanzania's Future. What Opportunities Are Opening Up?

Private sector investment projection FY2026/27: TZS 60.1 trillion, 70 percent of total investment. H...

Jul 19 3 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Opinion: Five Investments That Could End Generational Poverty in Tanzania Within One Generation.

Norway in 1950 was not a wealthy country. Its GDP per capita was comparable to several African econo...

Jul 16 21 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Kenya Has Signed a Sovereign Wealth Fund Into Law. Here Is What It Does, How It Will Be Governed, and What It Means for East Africa's Fiscal Landscape.

Kenya has enacted a Sovereign Wealth Fund law, signed by President Ruto on July 8, 2026. The fund wi...

Jul 8 6 min