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2 The Tanzania Vision 2025

A Tanzanian who is born today will be an adult, will have joined the working
population and will probably have kids by the year 2025. Similarly, a
Tanzanian who has just joined the labour force will be preparing to retire by
the year 2025. What kind of society will have been created by such
Tanzanians in the year 2025? What is envisioned is that the society these
Tanzanians will be living in by then will be a substantially developed one
with a high quality livelihood. Abject poverty will become a thing of the past.
In other words, it is envisioned that Tanzanians will have graduated from a
least developed country to a middle income country by the year 2025 with a
high level of human development. The economy will have been transformed
from a low productivity agricultural economy to a semi-industrialized one led
by modernized and highly productive agricultural activities which are
effectively integrated and buttressed by supportive industrial and service
activities in the rural and urban areas. A solid foundation for a competitive
and dynamic economy with high productivity will have been laid. Consistent
with this vision, Tanzania of 2025 should be a nation imbued with five main
attributes;

• High quality livelihood.

• Peace, stability and unity.
• Good governance,
• A well educated and learning society; and
• A competitive economy capable of producing sustainable growth and
shared benefits.

Scourge of Inequality is Getting Worse and Worse

King Carl XVI of Sweden - inequality is getting worse even in Scandinavia

You don't need the OECD to tell you that extreme social inequality is a growing scourge,
and that it tends to be highest −as far as advanced economies are concerned− in the English
speaking nations, particularly the US and the UK.

But the news is that it is growing almost everywhere, and that includes places where you
least expect to find it. Countries such as Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Finland, which
traditionally have had low inequality, are no longer spared from the trend. In fact, they've
all had a rather bigger increase in inequality than even the UK over the past twenty years.
Levels of inequality seem to be converging at a common and higher average.

We can only guess at what the figures look like for the non OECD developing nations of
the world. Despite huge economic progress, already high inequality in China and India will
have been growing even faster than it has in the advanced economies.

Total FDI output is now down nearly 35 percent from the July 2006 peak. That is to say, by
Christmas 2011, FDI output will have been falling for nearly five and a half years, and this
decline is going to be permanent; the only outstanding issue is what economic measures
will be needed to replace it.