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

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

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