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TERI was established by Tanzania Investment and Consultant Group Ltd (TICGL) to house its research mandate in a dedicated institute — independent in method, but drawing on TICGL's decade of advisory work in government, PPPs, and investment.
TERI's core activity is structured discussion — fellows and sector discussants brainstorm, challenge each other's assumptions, and pressure-test findings before anything is published under the institute's name.
The roundtable exists to produce research with real impact — feeding TICGL's advisory practice, informing government policy, and shaping how investors and development partners read Tanzania's economy.
Every TERI output passes through a standing sequence of convening, debate, and revision — the roundtable is a process, not a one-off event.
A research question is scoped — from TICGL's advisory practice, government partners, or a fellow's own agenda.
Fellows and sector discussants sit together to brainstorm angles, surface data gaps, and agree an analytical approach.
Lead researchers build the data architecture and analytical models — statistical, econometric, or financial — behind the question.
Draft findings return to the roundtable for peer challenge — assumptions, methodology, and conclusions are all contestable.
Revised findings are synthesised into a publishable narrative and cleared by the institute's research lead.
Findings are published and carried into TICGL's advisory work, government dialogue, and public dissemination.
Aligned with TICGL's 2026 sectoral expertise, the roundtable organises its work around Tanzania's priority growth sectors — each with its own fellow-led discussion track.
Debt sustainability, fiscal space, exchange rate policy, revenue reform.
Banking sector reform, capital markets, pensions & insurance, DFIs.
Power sector reform, oil & gas, renewables financing, mining & extractives governance.
Value chain development, agricultural productivity, cold chain, food security & rural finance.
SME support, export manufacturing, industrial park development, SEZ policy.
Transport corridors, urban planning, housing finance, PPP project pipelines.
Fintech, digital payments, ICT policy, e-commerce, Digital Economy Vision 2050.
Health systems financing, universal health coverage, education infrastructure.
Government agencies, development partners, and private sector clients can commission bespoke research or subscribe to TERI's standing publications.
TERI exists because good economic research survives contact with disagreement. We built an institute around that idea.
The Tanzania Economic Research Institute (TERI) was established by Tanzania Investment and Consultant Group Ltd (TICGL) to give the firm's research mandate a dedicated institutional home — separate from client advisory work, but feeding it directly.
TICGL had spent years producing sector analysis, feasibility studies, and policy advisory for government, development partners, and the private sector. TERI was created to strengthen that research capacity: a standing body of fellows and sector discussants whose full-time work is to interrogate Tanzania's economic questions, not just answer the ones a client happens to be paying for.
TERI remains structurally linked to TICGL — sharing its data infrastructure, its Dar es Salaam base, and its relationships with government and development partners — while operating with its own editorial and research independence.
TICGL is the parent organisation: investment, PPP, and strategic advisory. TERI is its research institute, publishing the evidence base that advisory work draws on.
We produce evidence, sector analysis, and investment intelligence that gives policymakers, investors, and development partners something firmer than opinion to act on.
We measure trust not by consensus but by how well our findings survive scrutiny, replication, and time.
No finding is published until it has been argued against, in the room, by another fellow.
TERI's editorial conclusions are not shaped by any funder, client, or political stakeholder — including TICGL.
Every claim is traceable to a data source, model, or primary consultation — never asserted on authority alone.
Frameworks are international; the questions, data, and context are unmistakably Tanzanian.
A research question earns a place on the agenda only if an answer would actually change a decision.
Dissent is recorded, not smoothed over — published briefs may carry a fellow's minority view.
A small, deliberately flat structure — built to keep the roundtable, not a hierarchy, at the centre of the work.
Sets the research agenda, chairs the roundtable, and signs off publications on behalf of the institute.
Lead economists and sector specialists holding standing research briefs across TERI's six pillars.
Data analysts and research assistants who resource the roundtable — sourcing data, drafting, and production.
Meet TERI's Director of Research, lead fellows, and affiliated experts.
Every paper below passed through the roundtable — brainstormed, modelled, and challenged — before it carried TERI's name.
TICGL built TERI because the distance between where Tanzania's economy is and where FYDP IV and Dira 2050 need it to be is not a small one — and closing it takes evidence, not assumption.
Tanzania's Fourth Five-Year Development Plan sets the near-term targets — industrialisation, infrastructure delivery, revenue mobilisation — that every sector ministry and agency is now working against. TERI's research programme is deliberately timed and scoped to this window.
Dira 2050 sets the destination: a USD 1 trillion economy, roughly USD 7,000 per-capita income. FYDP IV is one waypoint on that road. Research that doesn't connect to this horizon is, in TERI's view, describing the present without saying anything about the path forward.
Roads, water systems, land registries, port capacity, energy access — the physical and institutional infrastructure an economy needs simply to function at the scale it's growing toward. Structural gaps are usually visible, but rarely costed with any precision.
Revenue mobilisation falling short of the tax-to-GDP band Tanzania needs, financing structures that don't match project risk, policy sequencing that solves the wrong problem first. Strategic gaps are about design, not just delivery.
Both kinds of gap are, by TICGL/TERI's own estimation, large enough to materially slow Tanzania's path to FYDP IV and Dira 2050 if left undiagnosed. That is the roundtable's actual mandate: name each gap precisely, put a number on it wherever the evidence allows, and turn that finding into a specific recommendation — for TICGL's own advisory clients, and for the government partners who read this research directly.
These are the issues currently on the roundtable's agenda — the questions fellows and discussants are researching, arguing over, and building evidence around, spanning Tanzania's economy from the macro level down to the household.
If you'd like to discuss one of these questions with TERI, or think something is missing from this agenda, write to teri@ticgl.com.
TERI combines international analytical frameworks with data and context that are unmistakably Tanzanian, run through a structured, roundtable-driven process.
Scope the question and argue out the angle before touching data.
Primary and secondary data from authoritative national and international sources.
Econometric modelling, scenario analysis, and financial modelling.
Draft findings return to the roundtable for peer challenge before publication.
A sample of the case studies the roundtable has produced or has in progress — illustrative of the kind of work each pillar takes on, not a complete archive.
Commission a bespoke study or subscribe to TERI's standing publication series.
TERI's fellows and sector discussants are not report-writers first. Their core mandate is to convene, brainstorm, and stress-test ideas — turning raw questions into research with real policy and investment impact.
Fellows call and chair roundtable sessions on their pillar, bringing in discussants from other disciplines when a question crosses sectors.
Before any data is pulled, fellows argue out which questions matter, what could be wrong with the obvious answer, and what evidence would settle it.
A fellow's job is not finished at publication — they carry findings into TICGL's advisory work and government dialogue until they change a decision.
Director of Research, TERI · Chief Economist & Research Director, TICGL
Chairs the roundtable and sets TERI's research agenda across macroeconomics, public-private partnerships, and capital markets. Leads the institute's flagship FYDP IV sector analysis series and its collaboration with the Public-Private Partnership Centre (PPPC).
Each of TERI's eight research pillars is led by a fellow who owns that discussion track — convening discussants, setting the pillar's agenda, and defending its findings at the roundtable.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on debt sustainability, fiscal space, and exchange-rate policy.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on banking, pensions, and capital-market depth.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on power access, mining, and oil & gas policy.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on value chains, food security, and rural finance.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on SME support, export manufacturing, and industrial parks.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on PPP structuring, infrastructure financing, and urban real estate.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on fintech, ICT infrastructure, and the digital economy.
Lead Fellow
Convenes the roundtable's discussion on health-systems financing and education infrastructure.
Beyond the standing fellow seats, TERI is reaching out to economists, sector specialists, lawyers, engineers, and policy practitioners across Tanzania and the region — anyone with something rigorous to add to how the country reasons through its biggest questions.
This isn't a one-off consulting brief. It's a standing invitation to keep showing up at the table — to argue, to be argued with, and to help shape the research that feeds directly into TICGL's advisory work and Tanzania's own policy conversations.
Express Interest →Academics and practitioners who join specific roundtable sessions, lending outside scrutiny that keeps the institute's thinking honest.
Economists from Tanzanian universities join agriculture and trade sessions, bringing peer-review rigour to the roundtable.
Practitioners from relevant industries join the roundtable on a session basis, whenever their expertise sharpens a specific question.
Independent researchers and development-partner economists are welcome to propose a session.
Data analysts and research assistants source data, build models, and draft under fellows' direction — the operational backbone that turns roundtable discussion into publishable research.
Get in touch about joining the roundtable, or commissioning a research question of your own.
Government agencies, development partners, academics, and private-sector clients all have a way into the roundtable.
Regular access to TERI's sector reports and economic outlook publications as they're released.
Commission a sector study, macroeconomic brief, or policy paper scoped to your own question.
Policy design support, PPP advisory, and strategic planning input for ministries and agencies.
Programme design, evaluation frameworks, background papers, and expert facilitation.
Academics and sector practitioners can propose a session or apply for an open fellow seat.
Transaction-level advisory sits with TERI's parent organisation — TICGL.
We confirm the question, timeline, and format that fits.
The relevant lead fellow takes ownership and convenes discussants.
Scope, timeline, and terms of engagement are confirmed in writing.
Findings are delivered, presented, and available for follow-up dialogue.
Reach the research secretariat directly — most enquiries get a response within two working days.
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Tanzania Economic Research Institute (TERI) — a research institute founded by Tanzania Investment and Consultant Group Ltd (TICGL)
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · East Africa
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