What Does this year’s budget have for you? How Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda prepare and manage their budgets differently to minimise perpetual deficit
June 16, 2019
Economic, Economic Analysis, Governance, Policy
As East Africans continue to dissect and internalise what impacts this year’s national budgets will have on the economy and standards of ordinary ci...
Read More 0 likesHow to manage transboundary petroleum resources as Somalia and Kenya talk conflict off East African Coastline
June 16, 2019
Conflicts, Extractive Governance, Peace
The war of words and negative diplomacy between Kenya and Somalia over the disputed potentially oil and gas rich territory in the Indian Ocean has r...
Read More 0 likesTanzania Gold Exports increasing, amidst standoff with mining companies
June 16, 2019
Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance
Pundits suggested that the faceoff with mining companies over tax payments and drastic changes in the mining legislations and practices indicated th...
Read More 0 likesEITI Stakeholders convene in Paris for Global Assembly in June, 2019
May 26, 2019
Stakeholders
The EITI is currently a global standard which promotes transparency norms in the extractive sector. The organization has currently 52 member states from a...
Read More 0 likesBasic understanding of Tax justice and illicit financial flows in extractive sector
May 26, 2019
Extractive Governance, Tax
The call for tax justice has in recent years gained credence as alarming evidence now shows that while ordinary tax payers are sinking under the burden of ...
Read More 1 likeUnderstanding the basics of Transfer pricing, mispricing and other aggressive tax planning measures and concepts
May 26, 2019
Tax
Transfer pricing is setting of the price for goods and services sold between controlled (or related) legal entities with an enterprise. For example, if a s...
Read More 1 likeWhy governments should not sign Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Union without negotiation
May 26, 2019
Diplomacy, Regional Cooperation
The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) are bilateral agreements signed between less developed Countries and the European Union which allows free access ...
Read More 1 likeA comparison between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU) in search for stronger Regional Economic Cooperation
May 26, 2019
Regional Cooperation
The European Union (EU) is a regional economic grouping of 27 member countries. The history of the EU can be traced back to 1950 when the first proposal to...
Read More 0 likesForeign Policy and state behaviour: How US Foreign Policy to Africa changed during Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump Administrations
May 26, 2019
Economic, Regional Cooperation
The United States (US) is by any account a dominant super power whose foreign Policy has global influence. Historically, the US was discovered by foreign i...
Read More 0 likesWhy growing influence of Non-State Actors in diplomacy and consular practice is a cause for alarm in smooth running of State foreign affairs
May 26, 2019
Diplomacy, Economic, Regional Cooperation
From the onset of its definition and practice, diplomacy was conceived as an activity within the exclusive purview of the state. Realist and Classical the...
Read More 1 likeWhat is state capture and its impacts on political governance in Tanzania
May 26, 2019
Corruption, Governance
There are two major types of state capture: These are spectrum state capture, which involves individuals having undue influence on decision making processe...
Read More 1 likeNew threats to peace and Security: Extent to which new security threats of Piracy have affected economic and human security in East Africa
May 26, 2019
Peace, Security
In recent years piracy and cyber security have emerged to represent new security threats to economic and human security like never before.
Security has ...
Read More 0 likesEffects of Cyber Security on Human and Economic Security
May 26, 2019
Conflicts, Security
New threats to peace and Security: Extent to which new security threats of Cyber security have affected economic and human security in East Africa.
Cyber...
Read More 0 likesState fragility and conflicts
May 19, 2019
Conflicts
Even though the multi-party system established in many of the countries in the region since the 1990s has endured. Elections in the region are as much a ri...
Read More 0 likesYouth population bulge, unemployment and limited economic opportunity
May 17, 2019
Economic Analysis
Over the past decade the levels of population growth in Tanzania and the region has increased. In Tanzania the population growth rate increased from around...
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