Our thoughts

According to the BBC Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. However from 1993 to 2004, Tanzania improved their HDI by 0.1 from 0.3 to 0.4, which means that change is happening. The conditions in Tanzania are still not near optimal but the positive thing is that they are changing. In addition is it very construction that the World Bank is so optimistic about the future of Tanzania, and that there has already been many improvements but there are more to come. The thing that is still worrying is the level of corruption in Tanzania, it is not only the government where there have even been doubt about rigged elections but also other public sector jobs such as teachers and doctors. This mean that it will still be the ones who have more money who will have the power but what would be ideal is if the corruption level went down so that the country could get a better hold of the economy and maybe even one day get completely out of poverty.

The shocking thing was that even though Tanzania seems like an established African country the conditions are still so low and the percentage of people below the poverty line were completely outrages.  In addition it seems like the country really needs to work on the infrastructure as one of the factor in order to become more developed. However as mentioned this have improved and the fact is that things don’t change over night therefore it is possible that if Tanzania keeps going in the same direction is might reach it’s full potential.

To conclude Tanzania is without doubt a poor country but change and development is happening, a lot with help and aid from other countries. The term developing country is what describes Tanzania the best because it is indeed developing.