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.
At a Glance
- Current IMF membership: 190 countries
- Tanzania Joined the Fund on September 10, 1962.
- Total Quotas: SDR 397.8 Million
- Outstanding Purchases and Loans: SDR 41.11 (As of June 30, 2019)
- Last Article IV Consultation: July 27, 2016 (Report No. 16/253)
Tanzania and the IMF
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November 21, 2023
The 2023 UN Women UN DESA Gender Snapshot report, reveals persistent gender disparities: women dominate the informal sector, spend three times more on unpaid domestic tasks, earn less than half of men for comparable work, face maternal health risks, and experience high rates of gender-based violence. Global challenges, such as COVID-19 and climate change, exacerbate these inequalities.
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November 3, 2023
A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Charalambos Tsangarides, IMF mission chief for Tanzania, held meetings in Dodoma and Dar es Salaam from October 23 to November 3, 2023, to discuss progress on reforms and the authorities’ policy priorities in the context of the second review of Tanzania’s forty-month program under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF).
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Statement by IMF Deputy Managing Director Bo Li at the Conclusion of His Visit to Tanzania
August 1, 2023
Mr. Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today in Dar es Salaam at the conclusion of his visit to Tanzania
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Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Could Permanently Decline if Geopolitical Tensions Escalate
May 1, 2023
Countries will need to build resilience to manage the inevitable shifts in trade and foreign direct investment.
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April 28, 2023
Series:Country Report No. 2023/153
Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa
October 10, 2023
LIGHT ON THE HORIZON?
Still emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been hit by a sluggish global economy, worldwide inflation, high borrowing costs, and a cost-of-living crisis. In many cases, inflation is still too high, borrowing costs are still elevated, exchange-rate pressures persist, and political instability is an ongoing concern. To ensure that the coming rebound is more than just a transitory glimpse of sunshine, it is important for authorities to guard against a premature relaxation of stabilization policies, while also focusing on reforms to both claw back lost ground from the four-year crisis and also to create new space to address the region’s pressing development needs.
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Fraudulent Scam Emails Using the Name of the IMF
We would like to bring to the notice of the general public that several variants of financial scam letters purporting to be sanctioned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or authored by high ranking IMF officials are currently in circulation, and may appear on official letterhead containing the IMF logo. The scam letters instruct potential victims to contact the IMF for issuance of a “Certificate of International Capital Transfer” or other forms of approval, to enable them receives large sums of monies as beneficiaries. The contact e-mail information is always BOGUS and unsuspecting individuals are then requested to send their personal banking details which the scammers utilize for their fraudulent activities.For more information please see Fraudulent Scam Emails Using the Name of the IMF
Departmental Papers on Africa
