Tanzania: Debt Relief Fails to Cut Poverty

The benefits of debt relief have failed to trickle down to Tanzania's grassroots, where poverty remains rampant, according to the latest assessment by four anti-debt groups. In large part, the groups have found, this is because much-touted social funds provided under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative have not been translated into better social services for the East African country's 34 million citizens.