remember money is only a medium of exchange, hivyo it does not dictate much on the economy au sivyo japan washingekua ni moja ya nchi zenye uchumi mkubwa duniani.
to summarize kwa hivyo the value of money rises due to scarcity of it. printing too much money and the value goes down with it, there are other economics mambo jambos also contribute but the central government plays a huge role, especially when it falls short of cash it needs. they normally rely on selling their bonds but lenders look at the interest rate if its best to invest else where than buying those bonds. the government resolts to printing money this is when the value declines in exchange market if it was high because of its scarcity it dont make sense anymore because much as been printed so the rates of exchange rises in simple tone. this is why you saw at the height of UK economic crisis the pound was so law as the government resolted to printing money to bail out those banks.
to the business side of the EAC tanzania has to look on how it is going to benefit in the long run. under the current circumstances Kenya has lots of industries that produces high quality goods than us. so not much for us to offer them in terms of industrial goods apart from them asking for raw produce and bringing the final goods to our shores. the benefit of this is that it might help lower prices of the goods in already, but it would kill our own industries.
what we can really offer these nations at the moment tanzania are our natural assets. but to be honest we are not going to get the best value out of them from these poor nations. it will only help a few rich kenyans, ugandans, rwandasand burundis obtain these assets easily and out of government hassle as they are our trading patners and free to trade in tz as tanzanians.
what we need to look at is who has what in their hands and measure the pros and cons and what benefit they offer in each society or else kenya will end a total winner due to its industrial advantages. that is not to say we can not trade but we have to think hard and draw a line of what we need the most out of each others, lets leave that to our ministries they have all the data of outsputs or else tutajilopkea tu.