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136.	StanChart Bank to promote Tanzania abroad
	Monday, December 19, 2005  by Admin
	THE Standard Chartered Bank has organised a meeting in London due next month to promote Tanzanian business abroad. The head of legal & compliance at the bank, Nina Eshun, told the press in Dar es Salaam recently that the meeting would create business opportunities in Tanzania. The occasion was the presentation of the Bank of the Year Award to StanChart, a recognition that the bank has won for the third year running. According to Eshun, the meeting targets three sectors of the economy: tourism, agriculture and industry.
137.	Bank Throws Lifeline to Africa's Private Sector
	Monday, December 05, 2005  by Admin
	In a massive boost to Africas private sector, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank arm that finances companies, is to almost treble its support on the continent over the next five years to more than $1bn a year. The expansion in financing to the continent will involve a doubling in IFC financing for projects in SA over the next year to about $200m. Part of the IFCs unfolding plan is for it to play a far greater role in helping smaller South African companies invest in the continent.
138.	Tanzania too low in world trade competition, CTI says
	Monday, December 05, 2005  by Admin
	Tanzania is too low in world trade competition behind Kenya and Uganda, available statistics show. At present Tanzania ranks 82nd, Kenya 78th and Uganda 79th among 104 countries in global competitiveness, a councilor of the Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI), Gideon Nasari, said recently.
139.	50 local SMEs sign business deals in China
	Friday, November 25, 2005  by Admin
	In a move calculated against poverty, some 50 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, recently signed business deals with their Chinese counterparts. This follows a business trip to China by the Tanzanian entrepreneurs. According to Anath Rwenza, a member of the Tanzanian delegation, three of the local SMEs entered into joint ventures under which Chinese investors would establish metal works and furniture industries in Tanzania.
140.	Civil-society perspectives on the IMF and world bank
	Friday, November 25, 2005  by Admin
	The Development GAP was established almost a quarter of a century ago to ensure that the women and men of the Third World -- urban workers, farmers, small businesspeople, the poor -- have the opportunity and means to influence the economic decisions and programs in the North that directly affect them, their communities and their nations.
141.	Progress, constraints and limitations of financial sector reforms in the least developed countries
	Thursday, November 24, 2005  by Admin
	Many developing countries implemented financial sector reforms, as part of broader market oriented economic reforms since the late 1980s. This paper evaluates the achievements, limitations and constraints of financial sector reforms implemented in eight Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Madagascar, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Bangladesh, Laos and Nepal in Asia.
142.	Financial sector development
	Thursday, November 24, 2005  by Admin
	Evidence from the performance of developing countries seems to indicate that a well functioning financial system is an important element for achieving sustainable growth. The existence of an efficient and secure financial market can, in combination with appropriate economic policies, contribute to raising the total savings in the economy. Moreover, an efficient financial market channels the savings into productive investments
143.	Rural Towns as Partners in the Utilization of Financial Credit: A Viable Option for Accelerated Development in Africa
	Thursday, November 24, 2005  by Admin
	One option of development that governments in Africa can pursue but which does not appear to have crossed their minds, is encouraging towns, represented as incorporated units, to borrow financial credit. There are several reasons why this appears to be a viable option of development. No government has the financial capacity to address the social and developmental needs of every town under its jurisdiction.
144.	Strengthening our core business
	Thursday, November 24, 2005  by Admin
	The Governments Decentralization Policy requires trained personnel to shape and implement various development plans, at the district and provincial levels. KIST is fully embedded in this task. Through our Outreach and Community Attachment programs, in agriculture, water supply, energy supply, appropriate sanitation and hygiene technology, low cost housing, feeder roads and bridge construction, KIST students have been appreciably relevant to the development challenge.
145.	Financing, Revenue-Sharing, and Taxation Issues in Wildlife Management Areas
	Thursday, November 24, 2005  by Admin
	In 1999, Tanzania.s Wildlife Division in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism initiated the development of guidelines for the establishment of Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs).The recent history of the development of these WMA guidelines goes back to the mid-1990s. The Wildlife Policy of Tanzania, issued by the Government in 1998, envisages local communities taking greater responsibility for the management and utilization of wildlife resources in village lands.
146.	E-commerce business models
	Tuesday, October 25, 2005  by Admin
	Developing countries could be marginalised in the new economic paradigm because of the serious difficulties they face in access to ICTs, poor domestic telecommunication infrastructure, a huge knowledge gap and a lack of human resources capacity. Only an effective solution to close the huge gap dividing humanity between information haves and have-nots can clear the way for a more balanced global economic growth.
147.	BoT Governor launches Financial Sector Deepening Trust
	Tuesday, October 18, 2005  by Admin
	BoT Governor launches Financial Sector Deepening Trust: The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT), which was launched in Dar es Salaam by the Governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Daudi Ballali, on Tuesday, has 34bn/- available to be invested in local micro finance institutions for a five year period. The trusts investments will include research and development of financial markets
148.	Corporate World: Intrigues, Interests And Effects
	Tuesday, October 18, 2005  by Admin
	Corporate World: Intrigues, Interests And Effects - Difficult decisions have to be made in life. They may hurt a few though they need to be made for the greater majority. Take what is happening in our country today. Due to the huge expenditures incurred in the logistical activities of running and maintaining of its large fleet of vehicles, the government of Rwanda has decided to get rid of them and contract private transport operators to supply it with the same services.
149.	Money Transfer Systems: The Practice and Potential for Products
	Tuesday, October 11, 2005  by Admin
	Money Transfer Systems: The Practice and Potential for Products - This study aimed to identify the range of money transfer services operating in Kenya and how businesses and individuals, especially low-income earners use them. These include formal, semi-formal and informal services to send or receive payments or remittances domestically, within the East African region, or internationally.
150.	Business as usual: The World Bank, the IMF and the liberalisation agenda
	Monday, October 10, 2005  by Admin
	Business as usual: The World Bank, the IMF and the liberalisation agenda - The impact of forced liberalisation on poor peoples livelihoods and development has been well documented by Christian Aid and others. While this remains our central concern, there are other costs, as we discuss in chapter three. The G8 communique clearly states that governments should be accountable to their populations – yet conditionality means that they are instead accountable to their financiers.
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