East African Business Week: Tanzania District Leaders Given Talk on Gas

The Center for Global Development (CGD) in partnership with Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA) last week convened over 2000 Tanzanians from 20 districts to share and discuss their opinions on the best approach to manage the revenues expected from natural gas writes Emmanuel Kisima.

Speaking to East African Business Week CGD Research Fellow Mujobu Moyo said the proper management of revenues from natural resources can determined the total wellbeing of a nation and still Tanzania faces major challenges to harness full benefits of the recent discovery of natural gas.

“Citizens need to first understand and then get involved in the decision-making process of how revenues from such a resource should be managed to avoid the resource curse that has plagued other countries before,” she said.

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