Tanzania's Finance Minister Edwin Mtei entered negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and in early 1979 came to an agreement that the country would receive debt relief in exchange for a program of austerity measures including parastatal restricting, wage freezes, raising interest rates, and relaxing import controls
Nduna ya zachuma ku Tanzania Edwin Mtei adachita zokambirana ndi bungwe la International Monetary Fund (IMF) ndipo kumayambiriro kwa chaka cha 1979 adagwirizana kuti dzikolo lilandire chiwongola dzanja posinthana ndi ndondomeko yochepetsera ndalama monga kuletsa ma parastatal, kuyimitsa malipiro, kukweza chiwongola dzanja, ndi zowongolera zopumula 