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 is according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, the London based think tank. Before this report, the International...
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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...
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Kesi ya Mbowe: Shahidi ajikanyaga juu ya ‘ugaidi’ wa Mbowe na ujambazi wa Sabaya
Kama ilivyowasilishwa leo na ripota raia, BJ, leo tarehe 11 Januari 2022. Jaji ameingia Mahakamani Muda huu Saa 4 Kasoro Dakika 3 Kesi namba 16 ya Mwaka 2021 Khalfani...
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...
Kama ilivyowasilishwa na ripota raia, BJ, leo 10.01.2022 KESI namba 16 ya Mwaka 2021 Khalfani Bwire, Adam Kasekwa na Mohamed Ling’wenya Freeman Mbowe inatajwa hapa Mahakamani Wakili wa Serikali...
BAADA ya yote yaliyotokea, napenda kusema kuwa Job Ndugai, aliyekuwa Spika wa Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano tangu mwaka 2015 hadi tarehe 6 Januari 2022, amefukuzwa kihuni. Hajajiuzulu. Vielelezo...
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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...