Tanzania breaks the mould to stay on strong growth track in 2020

One of the truckloads of maize imported from Tanzania’s bumper harvest last year waits to be offloaded at a miller in Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Tanzania's inflation rate is expected to rise from 3.4 per cent in 2019 to 4.2 per cent in 2020 despite a robust economic growth of 6.5 per cent in 2020 compared with 6.6 per cent in 2019.

Standard Chartered Bank’s 2020 Economic Outlook Report for East Africa released on January 29, also notes that an easing of the country’s monetary policy in 2018-19 had allowed private sector credit extension to start accelerating again after a 2017 slowdown.