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.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

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

14 Feb

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Socioeconomic perspectives on budgeting in general election year

>The first few months of every year are busy months for those engaged in budgeting in various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in Tanzania. This is not an exception in 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

AllAfrica.Com

14 Dec

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

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

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Mar

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: US dollar in TZ: Dollarisation, old notes, small denominations

>Scholars of economics in general and its international economics branch in particular will recognise that Tanzania, as is the case in many other countries, is not a country in autarky. To the contrary, it is an open economy that transacts with the rest of the world (ROW).

 

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.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Aug

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Enabling environment needed for youth entrepreneurship

>Given the current increasing competitive labour market in Tanzania, attention should shift from getting a job to creating jobs through entrepreneurship. Focus should be on creating an enabling environment for having more job creators than job seekers through an entrepreneurial process.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 May

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Thinking, acting beyond WB funded project completion

>Development projects by various development agencies like the World Bank (WB) aim at, inter alia, bringing about development in various contexts. They may aim at contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction. One expects, therefore, that once such projects are completed, there will only be winners and not losers.

 

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