Tanzania Resident Representative Site

Resident Representative Office in Tanzania

October 2010

This web page provides information in on the activities of the Office, views of the IMF staff, and the relations between Tanzania and the IMF. Additional information can be found on Tanzania and IMF country page, including official IMF reports and Executive Board documents that deal with Tanzania.

News

Recovery and New Risks

Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa; Presentation by John K., Wakeman-Linn, IMF Senior Resident Representative in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

Tanzania: Regional Economic Outlook

A Commentary, Bank of Tanzania; Octobre 2010 

Resilience and Risks

Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa; Presentation by John K., Wakeman-Linn, Resident Representative in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economies Set for Broad-based Growth

Sub-Saharan Africa's accelerating economic growth is expected to be broad based in 2010 and 2011, the IMF says in its latest regional forecast. Strong domestic demand and surging exports are projected to help boost growth in most of the region back to near pre-crisis levels. 

More Trade Within Africa Offers Route to Faster Growth

Increased intraregional trade and greater investment in infrastructure offer the countries of Africa direct routes to faster economic growth, African finance ministers said. 

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Tanzania and The IMF

United Republic of Tanzania: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Joint Staff Advisory Note

May 18, 2012
Series: Country Report No. 12/118 

Tracking Short-Term Dynamics of Economic Activity in Low-Income Countries in the Absence of High-Frequency GDP Data

May 1, 2012
Author/Editor: Opoku-Afari, Maxwell ; Dixit, Shiv
Series: Working Paper No. 12/119 

IMF Survey: Truly Integrated Market Would Bring Benefits to East Africa

March 15, 2012
Only a truly integrated market is likely to give East African Community countries the full benefits of improved productivity, competitiveness, and welfare, IMF Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara said in Arusha, Tanzania, at a regional conference held to discuss the community’s first decade.  

Press Release: Press Statement by the IMF Mission to Tanzania

March 13, 2012

IMF Survey: IMF Promotes Better Economic Data in Africa

February 28, 2012
The IMF is helping a group of sub-Saharan African countries produce and disseminate higher-frequency data on economic growth.  

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Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa

This year looks set to be another encouraging one for most sub-Saharan African economies. Reflecting mainly strong demand but also elevated commodity prices, the region's economy is set to expand by more than 5¼ percent in 2011. For 2012, the IMF staff's baseline projection is for growth to be higher at 5¾ percent, owing to one-off boosts to production in a number of countries. There are, however, specters at the feast: the increase in global food and fuel prices, amplified by drought affecting parts of the region, has hit the budgets of the poor and sparked rising inflation, and hesitations in the global recovery threaten to weaken export and growth prospects. The projection for 2012 for the region is highly contingent on global economic growth being sustained at about 4 percent. A further slowing of growth in advanced economies, curtailing global demand, would generate significant headwinds for the region's ongoing expansion, with more globally integrated countries likely to be most affected. Policies in the coming months need to tread a fine line between addressing the challenges that strong growth and recent exogenous shocks have engendered and warding off the adverse effects of another global downturn. In some slower-growing, mostly middle-income countries without binding financial constraints, policies should clearly remain supportive of output growth, even more so if global growth sputters. Provided the global economy experiences the currently predicted slow and steady growth, most of the region's low-income countries should focus squarely on medium-term considerations in setting fiscal policy while tightening monetary policy wherever nonfood inflation has climbed above single digits. In the event of a global downturn, subject to financing constraints, policies in these countries should focus on maintaining planned spending initiatives, while allowing automatic stabilizers to operate on the revenue side. For the region's oil exporters, better terms of trade provide a good opportunity to build up policy buffers against further price volatility.