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Readers of Brian Cooksey’s Briefing Note “IPTL, Richmond and ‘Escrow’: The price of private power procurement in Tanzania” can gain an overview of the key developments in the corruption scandal by scrolling through the interactive timeline below: < ...
In this Briefing Note Brian Cooksey chronicles how politics and rent-seeking have subverted the development of Tanzania’s power sector during the past quarter of a century. ...