Nearly 70 per cent of 48 million Tanzanians live in rural areas where challenges abound: poor infrastructure, low agricultural productivity, creaky health system, inadequate agro-processing industries, wanting service delivery and insufficient skilled workforce.
Although the World Bank paints a somewhat rosy picture of a decline in Tanzania's poverty to around 28 per cent in 2012, from 34 per cent in 2007 -- about 12 million Tanzanians - mainly in rural areas -- still live below the national poverty line.
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