Worries over widening income gap: Tanzania is among a handful of African countries that has remained politically stable, despite undergoing a long period of economic stagnation. Growth has been good recently but the income gap has also been growing, leading to a spate of criminality. Neil Ford reports.

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Worries over widening income gap: Tanzania is among a handful of African countries that has remained politically stable, despite undergoing a long period of economic stagnation. Growth has been good recently but the income gap has also been growing, leading to a spate of criminality. Neil Ford reports.

Tanzania's economic progress over the past decade has been heralded as a major success. After the government decided to move away from the African socialism of the 1970s towards a more market-orientated approach, it took several years before the benefits began to filter through in terms of higher levels of growth and job creation.

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Yet despite the undoubted economic success, there are increasing signs tha...

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