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Tanzania: Budget 2025–2026 Overview

June 13, 2025 By Bowmans Tanzania The Minister for Finance and Planning Hon. Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba delivered the National Budget Speech on 12 June 2025 with the theme ‘Inclusive Economic Transformation through Domestic Resource Mobilization and Resilient Strategic Investment for Job Creation and Improved Livelihoods’.  The Budget was prepared based on […]

Timor-Leste’s Opportunity to Turn its Wealth Into Economic Development

(Credit: Agung Wid/iStock by Getty Images) June 11, 2025/IMFBlog Timor-Leste has achieved significant progress since its independence in May 2002. Asia’s youngest nation has maintained stability, strengthened institutions, and enjoyed enviable economic growth and inflation for a country emerging from conflict. Notably, it has stockpiled proceeds from its offshore oil […]

BudgIT Urges States to Domesticate National Policy on Women’s Economic Empowerment

June 11, 2025/BudgIT BudgIT, a civic tech organisation raising the standards of transparency, accountability, and service delivery in the Nigerian government and governance, has urged subnational governments to adopt and implement the National Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Policy and Action Plan. This policy is designed to boost economic progress for […]