ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Proposed fundamental law misses out significant functions of BoT

>The Proposed Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania may become a new mother law if accepted by the people in a referendum. Whether it will be accepted or not, our professional and moral responsibility to discuss it remains intact.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Oct

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE: Comments on national economic goals in proposed constitution

>The month of September 2014 will go down in history as the month in which the draft proposed Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania was released. Needless to say, the new Constitution-making process has been full of controversies as has been some of its contents.

 

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 ...
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 ...

 

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.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Oct

ECONOMICS MADE SIMPLE : What will take resource mobilisation to fund election promises

In times of election campaigns one wishes to see value-adding campaigns as opposed to personality-based campaigns that don’t make any sense at all. What the electorate wish, want and deserve to hear are issues that those vying for presidential, parliamentary and councillor positions would address and fix if elected.

 

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.

 

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

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.

 

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