very interesting thread,
chuse ningependa kujua ulijuaje wazua na mbona ukahama jamii? sijaona yeyote akitusi Tz kabla yako kuleta ujuaji hapa.


Bongo kuna madini lakini bado hamna chochote, ni uzembe ama ujinga? Kenya tuna shida zetu lakini zenu ni mingi zaidi

When you compare the Natural Resources that Tanzania has... it should have surpassed Kenya years ago!
Eventually, it probably will (the natural resources are very valuable) but not before 2020 at the earliest!
Oh, they hate Kenyans with a passion! They delay work permits then arrest or deport Kenyans...

Wewe Chuse njoo ujionee Mwai Kibaki superhighway alafu kisha uropokwe

i'm currently working briefly as part of an exchange program in TZ and you wouldnt believe how they harrased me the other day at the border coz i'd left my work permit in Dar,yet i'm busy treating their grandmothers in hospital.shame!

And to think there are plans to have a common currency with those retards.

Imagine some dodobrain in Dar influencing your economic health!

NEVER,,,,

Tanzanians are perpetual beggers who are always so threated of a hard worker.they expect all but give nothing.then spend the day whining of how things would b better in the abscence of the hardworking foreigners!!

Kenya is like that rude kid who is suspended but still beats the others in the exam. TZ, the obidient pupil mwenye hushika mkia.

This makes for interesting reading.

http://coldtusker.blogsp...-community-roadmap.html

Who cares about the EAC? Apparently, not Tanzania!

Love them or hate them part of our economy relies on the tanzanian market. Our weak manufacturing sector relies has a huge consumption in TZ. For example when in Dar I asked a pharmacy for paracetamol and they didn't know what that was then asked for panadol and I was asked if I want the Nairobi panadol or generic. Well I eventually took the Nairobi panadol. This example rings true for a lot of our manufacturers.

TZ natural resources is a boon for us. It makes them rich enough to consume and import Kenyan products. Their natural resources can also lead to the dutch disease kiling off their manufacturing sector ....yeai!

I trust we can be benevolent and let them have their false pride.

@ Chuse. Yes Tanzanians economy is already bigger than the other east african economies combined and is only equaled by SA in Africa. Hope you can rest and sleep easy with such good news.

Cheers.

their capital da resalaam must also become a hub kigali does not even come close to upper hill or westlands and its the only compe within east and central africa


by peter Nyanje
The Citizen Reporter
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is set to overtake Kenya as East Africa’s biggest economy by 2030 if the current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate remains the same, according to Standard Chartered Bank forecast.

Currently, at GDP value of $36 billion, Kenya is the largest economy in East Africa and it ranks as sixth in Africa, according to Razia Khan, the Standard Chartered Bank regional head of research in Africa, who also projected Kenya’s GDP growth rate at 6 per cent.

At the same time, Ms Khan shows in her presentation that Tanzania is the second largest economy in the region and ninth in the continent with its GDP measuring $23 billion. With a GDP growth rate of seven per cent, Ms Khan’s projections put Tanzania in the sixth largest economy in the continent and first in East Africa at $230 billion.

By then, Kenya would have retarded to seventh position in Africa, one position behind Tanzania, with $217 billion GDP, Ms Khan’s projections show.

While in 2011, South Africa leads as the strongest economy in the continent with its GDP at $555 billion, but come 2030, with constant GDP growth rates, Nigeria, which holds second position currently, would overtake it.
By then, Nigeria, whose current GDP is estimated at $415 billion and growth rate of 7.5 per cent would lead the continent economically with a GDP of $1,640 billion followed by South Africa with $974 billion.

In his quick reactions, the minister for Finance and Economic Affairs told The Citizen yesterday that the projections were true, noting that the economic figures in Tanzania would be much better than projected by the bank.

“In fact, our projections put Tanzania at a mid income economy between 2010 and 2025. Currently, Tanzania is the fifth fastest growing economy in the region. There is no way we are going to take all those years to 2030 to achieve what the bank projects. We are going to achieve it before that time,” said Mr Mkulo.

Asked how the government was going to ensure that the plans are implemented effectively, Mr Mkolo said in June this year the government baled the five years economic plan, which puts priorities on what should be done to spur the economic growth.

“And the plan is only at its first phase of the 15-year economic plan. We would continue to ensure that we capitalise on the economic gains to make the economy even stronger... what the bank says about Tanzania’s growth is true but tell them that our data is much better than what they project,” the minister said.

Commenting on the revelations, the shadow minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr Zitto Kabwe, said it was possible for Tanzania to beat Kenya economically if the country focuses on three sectors, which are agriculture, mining and energy.

“Agriculture in Tanzania forms 26 per cent of the whole economy while almost 70 per cent of the population depends on it for a living. This makes agriculture a crucial sector for poverty reduction,” he said.

However, Mr Zitto, who is the Kigoma North MP (Chadema), said that for agriculture to act as a basis for a robust economic growth in the country, it must grow at 6 per cent annually for the economic growth of 8 per cent.
He noted that if economic growth is to be at 10 per cent, the country must ensure that agriculture grows at the rate of 8 per cent.

“All these are achievable. It requires a strong leadership and commitment. Investment into the rural economy in rural energy, rural water supply, rural roads and rural social services like education and health would spur growth and integrate the rural economy with the rest of the economy,” stressed the shadow Finance minister.

But a leading local entrepreneur, Mr Ali Mufuruki of Infotech group, warned that double digit economic growth is not going to happen simply because people wish it. “We need to work hard, very hard and most importantly, we would require a very strong leadership,” he said when responding to Mr Zitto’s comments online.

He noted that implementation of Kenya’s Vision 2030, which was already underway, shows that the country might exceed their own very ambitious expectations.

“If you go to Kenya today and see the amounts and quality of works being rolled out be it in IT (information technology) infrastructure, roads, ports, airports, industrial parks, tourism infrastructure, shopping malls, horticulture, large scale farming, commodities and securities markets, human resource, etc, you will understand that theirs is not just a story or rhetoric as is commonly the case with us. They will attain the 10 per cent GDP growth long before we up ours to 7seven,” he stated adding:

“We need to drastically up our act as a nation and we are looking up to leaders like Mr Zitto to take us to that promised land of Tanzania.”

The online comments also attracted the immediate former East Africa Community secretary general, Mr Juma Mwapachu, who noted that attaining the Standard Chartered bank’s projections need committed leadership.
He said that Tanzania needed a ‘mindset’ that can embrace the Vision 2025 and implement it.