Dr ASHANTU Kijaji, Tanzania’s Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment has come out with all guns blazing calling the FCC (Fair and Competition Commission) to clarify on the three...
Economy
THE biggest news in economic statistics as we start 2022 is the forecast that the World’s economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first time in history. This...
A few days ago, I visited a friend in the economics fraternity to exchange notes on the state of the economy in our country, Tanzania. Our object of aggression...
ONE may ask, what is a Precariat Class?It was Professor Guy Standing in his book titled, “The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class”, who defined it as the new lumpen-proletariat...
PROFESA Anna Tibaijuka, aliyekuwa Mbunge wa Muleba Kusini (2010-2020) na Waziri wa Ardhi, Nyumba na Maendeleo ya Makazi (2010-2014), amejitokeza “kulilia” mkoa Kagera, akimsihi Rais Samia Suluhu autazame “kwa...
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NOTES ON PUBLIC DEBT, THE NDUGAI QUESTION AND LUXURY BELIEFS FROM OUR TECHNOCRATS
MY notes follow the public discussion on Sunday 2nd of January, 2022, over a Zoom video teleconferencing that was all about Tanzania’s Borrowing Sustainability, which brought together a good...
“YEAR’S end is neither an end nor a begining but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us”~ Hal Borland It was a very...
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MEMO TO OUR MISLEADERS: TANZANIA’S PUBLIC DEBT WILL SOON BEGIN TO BITE
IT is Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israel diplomat and politician, who said, “men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” This week, one of the...
IT is in the public domain that Africa’s looming debt crisis demands immediate action. Experts have been proposing actions that need to be taken urgently if this brewing crisis...
ALMOST everyone who matters is lately obsessed with talking about growing public debt in Africa. In May this year at its Plenary Session on May 31, 2021, the African...