Francois-Xavier de Mevius

The Government of Tanzania aims to transform the nation into a middle income country by 2025. The paper describes the sort of structural transformation that Tanzania may be expected to undergo as it grows to middle income status.

This is achieved by assembling data for a set of comparator countries that reached middle income status over the past 50 years and reviewing the structure of their economies as they reached this target. It then analyses what would be required for Tanzania to transform into a country akin to these middle income comparator countries.