TZ improves in Doing Business report

LHRC deploys researchers nationwide for Human Rights and Business Report
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Thirty research assistants have been deployed to all regions of Tanzania mainland to conduct an assessment on adherence of human rights in the country for this year's Human Rights and Business Report. The initiative is a brainchild of the Legal and Human ...

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

>The Tanzania Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is pushing for auditing existing tax exemptions in Tanzania to determine their merit or otherwise. [See ‘PAC calls for audit of all tax exemptions,’ Daily News: Jan. 14, 2015].

The Bayelsa State Government of Nigeria (http://www.bayelsa.gov.ng) says it has concluded arrangements to host global business leaders between 16th and 18th July, 2014, at its maiden investment and economic forum with the theme ‘Unlocking Bayelsa State’s Economic Potentials’.

Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the State Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a...

>Barely a month after the Tanzania Govt hiked excise duty on beverages (and tobacco goods, among other items), it has again hiked the tax on beers by an incredible 100 per cent!

One of my favourite columnists in our East African region in this day and age is a professor of Economics at the Dar es Salaam Campus of the Mzumbe University going by the name and style of Dr Honest Prosper Ngowi .

On Sept. 17 this year, the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board reportedly decided to ‘continue withholding’ disbursement of $472.8 million (roughly Sh1.04 trillion) to Tanzania.

After a little more than two months of strenuous electioneering involving especially two parties on different sides of the Political Divide, Tanzania has finally been ‘given a new’ president.