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Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 was launched alongside a separate document, the National Framework for Delivery and Performance Management of Development Plans, built ...

For more than half a century, Tanzania's economy has been defined by what lies beneath its soil and grows on its land: gold, diamonds, natural gas, graphite, coffee, cashew nuts, cotton, tea, tourism.

The trillion-dollar target is Vision 2050's destination. Four principles, self-reliance, resilience, competitiveness, inclusiveness, are the compass. The harder question isn't whether Tanzania adopted ...

Every generation inherits a different economic question. In the 1960s, Tanzania asked how a newly independent nation could build an economy without foreign domination. In the 1980s, the question was ...

A tonne of raw cotton is worth a fraction of the textiles it becomes. Tanzania's Vision 2050 isn't chasing more exports. It's chasing more valuable ones, betting that industrialisation and ...

Population growth usually gets presented as a statistic. Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 treats it as an economic problem to be solved. The plan projects Tanzania's population ...

Industrialisation starts before the first factory gets built. It starts with roads that cut transport costs, railways that move raw materials efficiently, ports that connect producers to global ...

Competing for investment, not sympathy For decades, many developing countries treated foreign investment as a form of development assistance, arriving because a country needed it rather than because ...

For the first time since independence, Tanzania has attached a number to its long-term economic ambition. The Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51, the foundation of Vision 2050, sets a target ...

Individually, Tanzania's mega projects look like a railway here, a port expansion there. Connected, they read as one deliberate logistics network built to serve landlocked neighbours as much as ...

In 2022, on LinkedIn, I drew parallels between the collapse of Evergrande, a property giant whose liabilities once dwarfed entire national budgets, and the quiet risks accumulating in markets like ...