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Tanzania

Inside this issue

• Every link of the commodity chain faces a thicket of obstacles

• Click here to listen to excerpts of an interview with President Jakaya Kikwete

• Click here for a slideshow on village life in Bulongwa - -

Content

Search is on for some fresh successes

Barney Jopson on a country with more old friends than new ideas

Jakaya Kikwete: Unanswered question plagues the president

The peripatetic head of state talks to Tom Burgis and William Wallis

The economy: Need to spread the benefits of investment

Barney Jopson on a steady growth rate but troubling signs of income inequalities

Agriculture: Crops are starved of lending

Tom Burgis on the thicket of obstacles choking farmers’ efforts

Hillary Shoo: Empire built on chickenfeed

Barney Jopson meets a merchant who lives and breathes his business

Village life: The long and bumpy road out of rural isolation

Barney Jopson visits a remote settlement where even bread is a four-hour ride away

Mining: Competing claims to glittering rewards

Tom Burgis on the tricky task of dividing equitably the immense mineral wealth

Electricity: The daily struggle to meet rising demand for power

Barney Jopson on shortages that threaten to hamper economic growth

Corruption: Coping with murkier corners of capitalism

Tom Burgis says the private sector lacks strong policing institutions

Tourism: Attempt to catch a new class of traveller

Tom Burgis reports on a strategy aimed at a limited number of big spenders

Zanzibar politics: Where tensions are never far from the surface