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

The Seven Mega Programmes Expected to Drive Tanzania's Economy Under Vision 2050

Tanzania's seven flagship programmes: (A) Bagamoyo Investment City and Integrated Transport: Mbegani...

Jun 23 3 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Tanzania Cannot Reach a USD 1 Trillion Economy While Importing Most of What It Consumes. The Structure Must Change Before the Target Becomes Credible.

Tanzania's ambition of becoming a USD 1 trillion economy by 2050 is economically possible under one ...

May 26 14 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Africa Does Not Lack Entrepreneurs. It Lacks the Industrial Capital to Turn Entrepreneurial Energy Into Factories.

Walk through Dar es Salaam, Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, or Kinshasa and the entrepreneurial evi...

May 26 17 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Tanzania Needs Industrial National Champions the Way South Korea Built Samsung. The Market Will Not Produce Them on Its Own.

No country in modern economic history became an industrial power through small business activity alo...

May 26 16 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

No Industrial Economy Was Built on Quarterly Thinking. Africa's Financial System Is Designed for Exactly That.

Industrialisation is fundamentally a time horizon problem, and Africa's financial systems are struct...

May 26 18 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Africa Achieved Political Independence Decades Ago. Its Financial Sovereignty Is Still Unfinished Business.

African states achieved formal political independence while remaining financially dependent on exter...

May 22 13 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

The Gulf Transformed Oil Into Sovereign Wealth. Much of Africa Transformed Commodities Into Fiscal Vulnerability. The Divergence Is a Warning Tanzania Cannot Afford to Ignore.

The Gulf states and Norway converted hydrocarbon revenues into sovereign wealth through institutiona...

May 22 14 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

Tanzania Is Building Railways, Dams, and Industrial Parks. Its Banking System Is Still Financing Imports. That Contradiction Will Determine Whether Vision 2050 Is Real.

Tanzania's ambition of becoming a USD 1 trillion economy by 2050 is not primarily an infrastructure ...

May 15 15 min

GOVERNMENT POLICY

The Global Economy Is Not a Digital Economy. It Is an Industrial Economy Whose Most Advanced Layers Happen to Be Technologically Integrated. Africa Has Not Understood the Difference.

The modern global economy is still fundamentally an industrial economy whose most advanced layers ar...

May 13 16 min