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For nearly two decades, conversations about foreign investment in Africa revolved around familiar names. China built railways and highways. The United States promoted private investment through ...

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 ...

Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 targets industry and construction contributing around 40% of GDP by 2050, following the same industrialisation-first sequence used by South Korea, ...

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 ...