TANZANIA IS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Oct 01, 2020
5 minutes
By Dante Di Iulio
“I congratulate all my compatriots on this historic achievement. We had envisaged to achieve this status by 2025 but with strong determination, this has been possible in 2020. God bless Tanzania.”
Since 2015, the Tanzanian Fifth Phase Government, under reform-minded President Dr John Pombe Magufuli, has set an ambitious industrialisation agenda in pursuit of the goals articulated in its National Development Vision 2025. To achieve that, and in addition to focusing on industrial products, President Magufuli has emphasised the need for attracting foreign investments into the country to drive economic development while implementing the Vision 2025 to become a middle-income nation.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanzania has achieved its middle-income vision five years ahead of schedule. Tanzania achieved the status, with a GNI per capita of US$1,080 up from an average of US$622 in the
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