Rating progress made over this year’s Eurobond issue

Witness: We have made progress but serious challenges to gender equality ...
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The reports presented during the last meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in March this year show that overall progress in gender equality in the last 20 years has been unacceptably slow, with stagnation and even regression in some contexts.

>The US-Africa Summit reflected the progress we have made toward establishing Africa as an attractive destination for investment on the world stage and that was certainly encouraging. But it also illustrated how much remains to be done.

In the previous article we noted that the two most important questions for MNEs to consider before recognition of the fees for intra-group services are (i) whether intra-group services have actually been provided or not and (ii) whether the charges/fees for the services are at arm’s length or not.

National Geographic
How This Tanzanian Musician Made Ivory a National Campaign Issue
National Geographic
Shubert Mwarabu promotes the grassroots campaign to save Tanzania's elephants at a festival in Iringa, in the southern highlands. Photograph by Mohamed Mvumbagu, Femina HIP. By Maraya Cornell, for National Geographic. PUBLISHED Mon Dec 28 ...

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A city-based savings and credit cooperative society (Saccos) which is operated by members of Women’s Advancement Trust (WAT) plans to raise its loan issuance by 47 per cent next year as it seeks to foster the conduct of economic activities among women.

Tanzania: Dar Saccos Plans to Issue Sh2.2bn Loans Next Year
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — A city-based savings and credit cooperative society (Saccos) which is operated by members of Women's Advancement Trust (WAT) plans to raise its loan issuance by 47 per cent next year as it seeks to foster the conduct of economic ...

>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.

>In election years as is the case for 2015, Tanzania’s budgets tend to be more politicised than in other years, thereby making them election year budgets. The 2015/16 national budget discussion started in parliament on May 12, 2015. This article has been written three days after budget discussions began in Dodoma.