How AI can be leveraged to power Africa’s sustainable energy systems
January 27, 2025
Climate Change Governance, Natural Resource, Policy
The evolution of energy production and consumption has undergone significant transformations over the decades, particularly in the context of Africa, where...
Read More 0 likesUnderstanding of Thermal power, opportunities and limitations for power generation in East Africa.
January 20, 2025
Climate Change Governance, Natural Resource, Trade and investment, Uncategorized
Globally, there is an increasing focus on mitigating climate change by gradually transiting to clean energy sources. With its location along the equator an...
Read More 0 likesTanzania’s Mining Investment Climate: Reforms that government should take to attract and retain new mining investors
November 20, 2024
Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Tax, Trade and investment
Tanzania is endowed with a variety of mineral resources and has been successful in attracting large mining investments. However, over the past few years, t...
Read More 0 likesEnhancing Implementation of East Africa's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for Climate Resilience: Is it an Exercise in futility?
October 31, 2024
Climate Change Governance, Economic Analysis, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Regional Cooperation
Under the Paris Agreement, East African nations have committed to ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GH...
Read More 0 likesYouth in Climate Change and Energy Transition: How Tanzania Government can repurpose youth for SDGs, NDCs and a fossil free future
October 23, 2024
Climate Change Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy
Young people are the majority of Tanzania’s population and destined to inherit the future yet are seriously at a risk of climate change. Many young people ...
Read More 0 likesRe-Positioning women and gender concerns in Critical Green Transition Minerals: Should women be treated differently?
October 10, 2024
Climate Change Governance, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy
The mining sector has mostly been male dominated and has had a differential impact on how women have contributed and benefitted from the sector. Women in m...
Read More 0 likesLeft Behind in Climate Change and Justice: Social Economic Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Communities: A case of Hadzabe Indigenous people of Tanzania
September 24, 2024
Climate Change Governance, Natural Resource, Policy
Africa has a lot of indigenous groups critically exposed to the dangers of climate change with little support. These constitute the left behind in climate ...
Read More 0 likesThe Nexus of Climate Change and Energy Transition on women in Tanzania: Why and how government must address gaps
September 9, 2024
Climate Change Governance, Economic Analysis, Natural Resource, Policy
This policy brief examines the intersection of gender, climate change, and energy transitions in Tanzania, emphasizing the importance of engaging women in ...
Read More 0 likesAnalysis of Climate Change and Energy Transition impacts on women in Tanzania: Policy and governance gaps
September 3, 2024
Climate Change Governance, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Uncategorized
Climate Change and Energy Transition are pertinent issues in contemporary global development challenge facing the world yet women are still at the periphe...
Read More 0 likesUnlocking 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.
August 8, 2024
Economic Analysis, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Trade and investment
Generally, Non-Trade Measures (NTMs) are good for safe and ethical international trade; however, when poorly regulated and applied irregularly, they transf...
Read More 2 likesDebt Budgets: A post budget political economy analysis of EAC Countries 2024/25 budget priorities, viabilities, risks and how governments can restore public confidence
July 25, 2024
Conflicts, Economic Analysis, Policy, Tax
Economists have always asserted that you know a country’s priorities from its budget while political scientists further suggest that a state and government...
Read More 0 likesPolitical Risk and Investment in EA: An Expose of violent tax protests and political risk on Trade and Investment in East Africa
June 27, 2024
Economic Analysis, Governance, Peace, Security, Tax, Trade and investment, Uncategorized
In our previous brief on Tax and Fiscal governance in East Africa, we observed that with dwindling foreign aid, it appears the governments in East Africa h...
Read More 0 likesDigital Currencies and Future Monetary Policy in EA: How Governments can address the downside of cryptocurrency to advance financial inclusion in East Africa
June 3, 2024
Economic Analysis, Policy, Trade and investment
In discussing the merits and de-merits of cryptocurrency reminds us of the simple high school definition of money. Money is what money does. In other word...
Read More 1 likeDisruptive digital economies and Monetary Policy: Re-Exploring Blockchain , Crypto Currency and monetary policy in East Africa-Are governments running late?
May 27, 2024
Economic Analysis, Trade and investment
The pressure to digitalize our economies and adopt a new generation of monetary policies may be legitimate but the risks are also real. How can government...
Read More 0 likesTax 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
May 15, 2024
Economic Analysis, Tax, Trade and investment
With dwindling foreign aid, it appears the governments in East Africa have resorted to squeezing everywhere to raise some dime. Taxation may be good howeve...
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