Research built by argument, not by committee sign-off.
TERI exists because good economic research survives contact with disagreement. We built an institute around that idea.
Founded by TICGL
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 → TERI
TICGL is the parent organisation: investment, PPP, and strategic advisory. TERI is its research institute, publishing the evidence base that advisory work draws on.
What makes TERI different from a consulting desk
- →Findings are contested internally before they carry the institute’s name.
- →Fellows hold standing research briefs, not just client deliverables.
- →The roundtable meets on a fixed cadence, independent of any single engagement.
To convene Tanzania’s sharpest economic thinking into research that changes decisions.
We produce evidence, sector analysis, and investment intelligence that gives policymakers, investors, and development partners something firmer than opinion to act on.
East Africa’s most argued-over — and most trusted — research institute.
We measure trust not by consensus but by how well our findings survive scrutiny, replication, and time.
What governs the roundtable
Contestability
No finding is published until it has been argued against, in the room, by another fellow.
Independence
TERI’s editorial conclusions are not shaped by any funder, client, or political stakeholder — including TICGL.
Evidentiary Rigour
Every claim is traceable to a data source, model, or primary consultation — never asserted on authority alone.
Local Grounding
Frameworks are international; the questions, data, and context are unmistakably Tanzanian.
Policy Relevance
A research question earns a place on the agenda only if an answer would actually change a decision.
Open Disagreement
Dissent is recorded, not smoothed over — published briefs may carry a fellow’s minority view.
How the institute is organised
A small, deliberately flat structure — built to keep the roundtable, not a hierarchy, at the centre of the work.
Director of Research
Sets the research agenda, chairs the roundtable, and signs off publications on behalf of the institute.
Roundtable of Fellows
Lead economists and sector specialists holding standing research briefs across TERI’s six pillars.
Research Secretariat
Data analysts and research assistants who resource the roundtable — sourcing data, drafting, and production.
See who sits at the table.
Meet TERI’s Director of Research, lead fellows, and affiliated experts.