Mpango: This is what will impede industrialisation

Finance and Planning minister Philip Mpango (second left) receives a copy of the book Tanzania’s Industrialisation Journey, 2016-2056 from CEO Roundtable of Tanzania chairman Ali Mufuruki at its launch in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Looking on are the book’s co-authors Moremi Marwa (right) and Gilman Kasiga. PHOTO | ELIZABETH EDWARD

What you need to know:

  • Finance and Planning minister Philip Mpango said in Dar es Salaam that both the Five Year Development Plan 1 (FYDP 1) and FYDP 2 suffered from the zeal of trying to address all economic challenges at once.
  • “In retrospect, I personally find both the FYDP 1 and FYDP 2 to be suffering from the zeal or over ambition of attempting to address all economy-wide gaps at once,” Dr Mpango said when he graced the launch of the book titled Tanzania’s Industrialisation Journey, 2016-2056.