ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE : Electronic fiscal device saga in Tanzania: Understanding issues

>The week leading to February 15, 2014 was partly marked by the protest of traders in the country against the use of electronic fiscal devices (EFDs). Businesses were closed in various parts of the country, including very busy Kariakoo shops in Dar es Salaam, Iringa, Songea and Tabora, among others.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Jul

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Perspectives of Greece’s July rejection of austerity economics

>Greece economy has been struggling for a while. Among other things, it was at the centre stage of the 2010 eurozone sovereign debt crisis and had to be bailed out by its fellow euro zone states. In 2015 in general and the week leading to June 31 in particular Greece had to settle its colossal debts. It defaulted and once again needed to be conditionally bailed out.

 

9 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

14 Dec

Tanzania: Economics Made Simple - Resource Mobilisation for Sustainable ...

Tanzania: Economics Made Simple - Resource Mobilisation for Sustainable ...
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The year 2015 was a time during which 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations Summit in September 2015. These are the much-awaited post-2015 agenda after coming to end of the Millennium Development Goals ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Oct

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: What will determine Tanzania’s economy after general election

In the article of January 3, 2015 this author outlined some of the issues that will move and shake Tanzania’s economy this year. One of them is the general election. Now that the election is just two weeks away, it is time to elaborate the way the election can move and shake Tanzania’s economy and see how the economy will look like post October 25, 2015.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Nov

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Perspectives on October 2014 Sino-Tanzania business deals

>President Jakaya Kikwete’s October 2014 visit to Asia and China in particular involved, among other things, the signing of a number of multi-million dollar business deals, including those in transport infrastructure and real estate. This happened about one and a half years after the March 2013 visit to Tanzania by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Nov

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Why there’s need to go beyond austerity economic measures

The coming to office of President John Magufuli has been marked and characterised by a number of new things. These include some surprises and shockers. Indeed, surprises seem to be his way of doing things.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Critical look at weak performance of Tanzanian shilling

>The Tanzanian shilling has been declining and losing value in relation to major and vehicle global currencies such as the US dollar in the recent past. We have observed exchange rates of over $1 to Sh1,750. In not so a distant past, foreign exchange markets would sell the greenback at a price (exchange rate) of about Sh1,200 to Sh1,500 per $1 having risen from figures below Sh1,000 per greenback.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Sep

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: From availability of investment finance to access challenges

>As the Finance and Investment Week  is celebrated in Tanzania this September, there is a need to discuss, inter alia, the state of affairs in these matters. In order to appreciate the current situation of availability and accessibility to finance in Tanzania, it is important to go back in history.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Dec

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Resource mobilisation for sustainable development goals

The year 2015 was a time during which 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations Summit in September 2015.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jun

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Towards fixing what’s broken in WB’s non-job creation report

>The very educative and informative 5th World Bank (WB) Economic Update for Tanzania report was released on June 24. The 84-page report is titled ‘Who Wants a Job? The Magnetic Power of Cities’. Part One dwells on the state of the economy, including recent developments, short to medium-term prospects and the next challenge of creating jobs for faster and more equitable growth.

 

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