Assessing the Impact of the EU’s Carbon Border Tax Adjustment Mechanism on Tanzania’s LNG plans and industrial exports
The European Union’s (EU) proposed Carbon Border Tax Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to mitigate c…
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How AI can be leveraged to power Africa’s sustainable energy systems
The evolution of energy production and consumption has undergone significant transformations over th…
Understanding of Thermal power, opportunities and limitations for power generation in East Africa.
In this brief we focus on geothermal as source of energy, shading some perspectives on what …
Tanzania’s Mining Investment Climate: Reforms that government should take to attract and retain new mining investors
According to the Ministry of Minerals, government stands ready to facilitate investor meetings and e…
Enhancing Implementation of East Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for Climate Resilience: Is it an Exercise in futility?
The Paris Agreement in 2016 set targets to cut global cut global emissions and keep temperatures bel…
Youth in Climate Change and Energy Transition: How Tanzania Government can repurpose youth for SDGs, NDCs and a fossil free future
Young people are the majority of Tanzania’s population , destined to inherit the future yet are ser…
Re-Positioning women and gender concerns in Critical Green Transition Minerals: Should women be treated differently?
With the increasing focus on climate change and green transition minerals, multiple questions are as…
Left Behind in Climate Change and Justice: Social Economic Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Communities: A case of Hadzabe Indigenous people of Tanzania
A lot of climate change coverage and advocacy in defense of indigenous communities is largely focuse…
The Nexus of Climate Change and Energy Transition on women in Tanzania: Why and how government must address gaps
While Tanzania has made some progress in addressing climate change, significant policy and governanc…
Analysis of Climate Change and Energy Transition impacts on women in Tanzania: Policy and governance gaps
Climate Change and Energy Transition are pertinent issues in contemporary global development challen…
Unlocking Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) in Regional Agricultural Trade in East Africa: An Analysis of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Regime for Horticultural Products in Tanzania and Its Effects on International Trade.
Generally, Non-Trade Measures (NTMs) are good for safe and ethical international trade; however, whe…
Debt Budgets: A post budget political economy analysis of EAC Countries 2024/25 budget priorities, viabilities, risks and how governments can restore public confidence
Economists have always asserted that you know a country’s priorities from its budget while political…
Political Risk and Investment in EA: An Expose of violent tax protests and political risk on Trade and Investment in East Africa
In our previous brief on Tax and Fiscal governance in East Africa, we observed that with dwindling f…
Digital Currencies and Future Monetary Policy in EA: How Governments can address the downside of cryptocurrency to advance financial inclusion in East Africa
In discussing the merits and de-merits of cryptocurrency reminds us of the simple high school defini…
Disruptive digital economies and Monetary Policy: Re-Exploring Blockchain , Crypto Currency and monetary policy in East Africa-Are governments running late?
The pressure to digitalize our economies and adopt a new generation of monetary policies may be leg…
Tax and Fiscal Governance: Is VAT milking the broken tax cow dry? An analysis of tax trends and impacts on EAC small traders and citizens, with a case of the recent traders’ boycotts in Uganda
With dwindling foreign aid, it appears the governments in East Africa have resorted to squeezing eve…
Solar and Energy Transition: Good policy intentions but less progress: Assessing Tanzania and EAC’s Utility scale solar energy potential and policy gaps to fix
Governments are struggling with little success to attract and retain utility scale solar projects an…
Energy Transition: Understanding basics of solar energy and why it has failed to peak in East Africa
East Africa has abundant hot sunshine around the year yet harvesting this for large utility …
The Petals of Blood: Dissecting the contagion effect of Sudan war on South Sudan and EAC with lessons on governance and state failure
The Sudan war has been raging for almost a year, with catastrophic effects now spreading beyond Suda…
Oil and Energy Transition: Why Sudan conflict provides new hope for EACOP
The Sudan conflict is a catastrophe that must be stopped but its unintended consequences provide new…
How EAC can benefit from its Critical or Transitional Minerals
The EAC has vast deposits of minerals critical to driving technology to support the green industrial…
Critical Minerals: EAC destined large critical minerals block, yet benefits remain elusive
With the DRC and Somalia on board and new coltan discoveries made in Kenya, the East Africa Communit…
Democracy under attack: Revisiting the 10 principles for a democratic culture and elections in Tanzania
Democracy is said to be good yet democracy everywhere is under attack. By Moses Kulaba, G…
Tanzania’s new political and electoral reforms : A step to the right, a high jump to go!
In early February 2024 the Tanzanian parliament made sweeping electoral reforms by passing…
Tanzania’s offshore wind and tidal energy potential: How Tanzania can become a wind and tidal power giant
Tanzania faces acute electricity energy supply yet with investments in offshore wind and tidal wa…
Evaluating East Africa’s economic trends and outlook 2024: What should EAC governments do to reduce further hardships?
The East Africa Community is so far the largest economic block, with 7 members states with a vast te…
Energy Transition: Why Africa must focus on Energy Aggregation and Consolidation
Historically, energy transitions have never meant one energy system completely replacing another rat…
Securing Tanzania’s clean energy future: How Tanzania can harness its renewable energy opportunities
With a high wind potential that covers more than 10% of its land and a solar power potential estimat…
TAXING E-COMMERCE IN A RAPID EXPANDING DIGITAL ECONOMY: Managing the delicate balance between DRM, and Employment in East Africa-How do we get right?
Taxation of e-commerce is an emerging area of challenge in tax policy and administration and yet the…
Financing of the Green Economy and prospects for Africa-Can Green Banks offer a viable alternative?
Achieving Green Economies and a just energy transition for Africa cannot be achieved without financi…
AfCFTA: Dissecting the world’s largest Free Trade Area: Challenges and Opportunities for East Africa. Is AfCFTA a window of opportunity or a fallacy?
The AfCFTA entered into force on May 30, 2019. Despite the speed at which this new Africa continenta…
Make it Happen: How Green Banks acceleration can light up rural hamlets in Uganda.
For this action, I propose following actions. First, the Commissioner of renewable energy to review …
End to false promises: Why COP27 must be a true African COP
Climate Change and Energy Transition negotiations should be about people. A just transition…
The Future is Green: How Can Tanzania Harness its Renewable Energy-Opportunities and Gaps
With high winds potential that cover more than 10% of its land and solar energy levels ranging from …
Energy transition risks. Can Tanzania’s Gas and Coal remain stranded assets?
Tanzania has vast deposits of natural gas and coal. The looming energy transition will poten…
Tanzania’s Transition Minerals potential opportunities, risks, and dilemma in context of Climate Change and Energy Transition
While critical minerals offer potential opportunities, there are also latent risks for count…
Tanzania proposes radical amendments to Mining and EITI Laws
The government of Tanzania has proposed radical amendments to its current Mining and Extractive Tran…
Tanzania’s removal of penalties on transfer pricing: What did government seek to achieve?
Tanzania Finance Hon Mwigulu Nchemba In this year’s (2021/22) budget speech Tanzania’s Minister f…
Uganda signals new impetus to Mining with a bill in offing
The Uganda government has signaled a new impetus in the mining sector with multiple reforms and poli…
Uganda-Tanzania East Africa Oil Pipeline: signed deal yes, but hurdles lie ahead.
The East African Oil Pipeline project received significant boots in April 2021 with Uganda with a se…
Tanzania political transition: new era, new opportunity
In March, East Africa was gripped with shock upon the sudden death of Tanzania’s President John Pomb…
Were 2020/21 National Budgets Ceremonial? A commentary of how this year’s budgets missed the Bigger Picture
National budgets are statements of how the government plans to raise and spend public money. They ar…
National Budgeting amidst COVID 19:Why 2020/21 National budgets should be revised and steps government could take
COVID 19 has been known for many reasons but for Tanzania and East African governments in general, t…
2020 General Elections: Key Electoral Reforms Tanzania must take
Tanzania has made progress on a number of democratic fronts compared to its peers in the region. How…
How to curb transfer pricing , tax dodging and illicit financial flows in extractive sector
Tackling tax dodging and illicit capital flight in the extractive sector can be a challenge for tax …
How Tanzania’s government can promote Domestic Direct Investment (DDI)
How Tanzania’s government can promote Domestic Direct Investment (DDI) By Moses Kulaba, Governance…
SADC in Economic Meltdown; Can Tanzania be German of the Region?
On Saturday 17th August, Tanzania assumed the chair of the South African Development Cooperation (SA…
Elation as Kenya exports Oil; what does it mean for Oil rush in East African region
On 1st of August 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that Kenya had joined the list of world oi…
Why Rules of Origin (RoO) should not be used exclusively to pursue trade policy objectives
This article shades light on a major instrument in international trade and customs management, which…
WB Reports Tanzania Economic Growth was lower , warns Poverty reduction is Constant
According to the World Bank Group, Tanzania’s economy is estimated to have grown by 5.2 percent in 2…
Election Coordination Mechanisms: A comparative study of Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria
Proper election coordination is a major factor in successful elections in a multiparty democracy. Th…
One in four people in Africa pay bribes to access services, TI survey says
According to Transparency International (TI) survey report, more than 1 in 4 people in Africa who ac…
A British tax haven, Jersey Island, is returning a Nigerian dictator’s $270 million to his country
As Africans celebrate the Africa Anti-Corruption day on 12th July 2019, the good news for Nigeria…
How will the South African 2019 Proposed Financing Provisioning Regulations affect mining companies? *
As East African Countries grapple on how best to manage environmental payments for compensation and …
‘The Corruption Tree’, using innovative local ways to sensitize communities about corruption and local governance-Lessons from EU-KAS ‘Tungane Pamoja’ Project in Tanzania
This project demonstrated that community education about corruption should not be an expensive en…
No fiddling with Civic Space-CSOs affirm at Paris EITI Meeting
We demand that an independent, external review be commissioned to analyse the EITI’s tools to assess…
What Does this year’s budget have for you? How Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda prepare and manage their budgets differently to minimise perpetual deficit
As East Africans continue to dissect and internalise what impacts this year’s national budget…
How to manage transboundary petroleum resources as Somalia and Kenya talk conflict off East African Coastline
The war of words and negative diplomacy between Kenya and Somalia over the disputed potential…
Tanzania Gold Exports increasing, amidst standoff with mining companies
Pundits suggested that the faceoff with mining companies over tax payments and drastic change…
EITI Stakeholders convene in Paris for Global Assembly in June, 2019
EITI Stakeholders convene in Paris for Global Assembly in June, 2019 Global stakeholders of the Ext…
Basic understanding of Tax justice and illicit financial flows in extractive sector
Basic understanding of Tax justice and illicit financial flows in extractive sector By Moses Kulaba…
Understanding the basics of Transfer pricing, mispricing and other aggressive tax planning measures and concepts
Understanding the basics of Transfer pricing, mispricing and other aggressive tax planning measures …
Why governments should not sign Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Union without negotiation
Why governments should not sign Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Union withou…
A comparison between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) in search for stronger Regional Economic Cooperation
A comparison between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) in search for st…
Foreign Policy and state behaviour: How US Foreign Policy to Africa changed during Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump Administrations
Foreign Policy and state behaviour: How US Foreign Policy to Africa changed during Presidents Bush,…
Why growing influence of Non-State Actors in diplomacy and consular practice is a cause for alarm in smooth running of State foreign affairs
Why growing influence of Non-State Actors in diplomacy and consular practice is a cause for alarm in…
What is state capture and its impacts on political governance in Tanzania
What is state capture and its impacts on political governance in Tanzania By Moses Kulaba, Governa…
New threats to peace and Security: Extent to which new security threats of Piracy have affected economic and human security in East Africa
New threats to peace and Security: Extent to which new security threats of Piracy have affected eco…
Effects of Cyber Security on Human and Economic Security
New threats to peace and Security: Extent to which new security threats of Cyber security have affe…
