East Africa: Economic growth has no impact on poverty

East Africa's generally strong economic performance is failing to produce significant progress toward anti-poverty goals, according to the latest African Economic Outlook report by the Paris-based Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD). The finding suggests that in Tanzania and Uganda, which had two of the highest growth rates in East Africa, economic improvements are largely confined to better-off segments of society and are not filtering down to the poorest citizens.