Of course it is moving ahead!
However, you only need to remember the query placed by IMF when they were not allowed to publish outcomes from their study of the economic performance... and the retort that was given on how Tanzania's inflated numbers were derived based on a new compilation method. The IMF's forecast was then given as 4.1% (I think)?
Therefore, based on that background, one should read the new numbers (7.2%) understanding that the figure is a result of the new calculation method.
What would be the figure using the old method?
Mleta hii hoja na
Mzee Mwanakijiji
Naomba niulize kwa kiswahili mkuu.
Kama kumbukumbu zangu zipo sahihi IMF hawakusema uchumi wa Tanzania umekuwa kwa 4% kwa kipindi huska bali walisema au tuseme walitabiri(forecast) uchumi wa Tanzania utakuwa kwa hiyo 4% kwa kipindi fulani.
Taarifa hii mpya inasema uchumi umekuwa kwa 7.2% na sio utabiri bali kitu kilichotokea tayari.
Unasemaje kuhusu tofauti ya kutabiri na kilichotokea tayari?
Huoni kuwa serikali ndio ilikuwa sahihi kukataa ule utabiri, na kilichotokea ndio kimeetetea hoja ya serikali?
Nadhani hata utabiri wao(IMF) kwenye taarifa ile wa mfumuko wa bei umekwenda kinyume na kilichotokea.
IMF cuts Tanzania's 2019 economic growth forecast to 4 percent
DAR ES SALAAM, April 10 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund lowered its forecast for Tanzania’s economic growth this year and in 2020 to around 4 percent from a previous forecast.
In its World Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday, the Fund also predicted the East African nation’s consumer price inflation will reach 3.5 percent this year and edge up to 4.5 percent in 2020.
Tanzania’s economy will expand at 4 percent this year then accelerate slightly to 4.2 percent next year, from an estimated 6.6 percent in 2018, the Fund said in its forecasts.
In January last year, the IMF said it expected Tanzania’s economy to grow at 6–7 percent over the medium term if the country hiked capital spending and improved its business environment.
Tanzania relies heavily on mining, tourism and telecommunications for state revenues and foreign exchange earnings.
The government forecasts the economy will grow 7.3 percent in 2019 after an estimated 7.2 percent expansion last year, helped by public infrastructure investments. (Reporting by Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala; Editing by Elias Biryabarema and George Obulutsa, Catherine Evans)