Kenya 🇰🇪 Teachers Are The Most Well Paid In East Africa

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ANALYSIS By Dorris Otieno Kenyan teachers are not only the best paid in East Africa, but also earn almost 12 times more than the country's average pay, a comparative study by Nation Newsplex and the Institute of Economic Affairs reveals. Even as teachers go on strike for the 12th time since their first industrial action in 1962, the analysis, which compares teachers' salaries in Kenya with those of their peers in select African countries , also finds that the lowest-paid teacher in Kenya earns more than the highest-paid teacher in Uganda. Uganda and South Africa were chosen as countries against which to compare wages of teachers because they have the most up-to-date data against which the comparison could be made. While Tanzania was not included in the comparison because only average pay for the year 2011 was available, even its figures indicated that Kenyan teachers earn more than their Tanzanian counterparts. The highest paid Kenyan teacher earns almost 12 times more than the
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Why Should You Invest in Tanzania?

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Tanzania Enjoys Peace & Political Stability

Tanzania is one of the most peaceful and politically stable countries in Africa. Since its independence in 1961, the country has never experienced a civil war or any major internal strife. Tanzanians continue to live in peace and with a sense of a common national identity. Since the resignation of Julius Nyerere, the country’s first president, all succeeding presidents have been elected into office in fair and free elections. Presidential terms are limited to two five-year terms. This political stability provides protection to investors.

Tanzania Has A Strategic Geographical Location



The country’s geography is greatly beneficial. It is connected directly to the Indian Ocean giving it trade links to Asia and sits in between the ocean and 6 landlocked countries (Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia and Malawi) that rely on Tanzania for passage of goods. The country has 3 deep water ports (Dar es Salaam, Tanga, and Mtwara) that are servicing the neighboring countries. Furthermore, its membership to the SADC Free Trade Area and EAC Common Market, with developed rail and road networks, makes Tanzania a natural transportation gateway for East and Central Africa.

Tanzania Has An Attractive Investment Fiscal Regime

Tanzania fosters a very stable and predictable Fiscal Investment Regime, which provides a soft landing to all investors. It is the kind of regime that recognizes the fact that investors need to recover their investment expenses prior to paying corporate taxes.

Tanzania's Investment Incentives

Tanzania offers a well-balanced and competitive package of fiscal incentives in comparison with other African countries. Aiming at providing competitive fiscal regime on foreign trade, Tanzania has signed double taxation treaties with numerous countries and still is negotiating with other countries.

Investment Guarantee in Tanzania

Investors in Tanzania are guaranteed against nationalization and expropriation. Tanzania is a signatory of several multilateral and bilateral agreements on protection and promotion of investments. Just to mention the few, Tanzania is a member of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and Africa Trade Insurance Agency (ATIA)/

Tanzania Has A Plenty of Natural Resources

Tanzania’s untapped natural resources offer a wide range of investment opportunities; arable land, minerals, and natural tourist attractions are all awaiting potential investors. Tanzania is internationally renowned for its abundance of wildlife attractions and unexploited mineral reserves.


Tanzania Has A High Growth Economic Potential

Tanzania is an emerging economy with high growth potential for the unforeseen future. Tanzania was named best investment promoter of African Investment Promotion Agencies, 2004 competition.

Membership of Regional Blocs and Bilateral Trade Agreements

Tanzania is a member of regional trading blocs of SADC and the EAC, as well as a beneficiary country under the preferential trade enhancing schemes offered by the AGOA legislation, of which 6,500 products enjoy duty and quota free access to the U.S.A. market. Additionally, Tanzania enjoys benefits set by the European Union Everything But Arms (EBA) and the ACP-EU Cooperation and various bilateral cooperation agreements

Public Private Partnerships
Tanzania embraces a strong and cooperative relationship between the government, the private sector, and development partners, and that makes it exceptionally conducive to attracting investments

Export Processing Zones & Special Economic Zones

Benefit from highly advantageous special investment schemes—Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and Special Economic Zones (SEZs).



Tanzania Has A Magnificent Business and Leisure Destination

The Government of Tanzania is highly determined to deploy whatever necessary measures to lower the costs of doing business and maintain a fair competition business practices. Besides, Tanzania offers gorgeous leisure opportunities, for instance, global 5* Hotels, Exotic Beach Hotels, private jet and helicopter for hire, elegant mansions and apartments for both hire and buy, etc.
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