Tanzania is expected to halve poverty by 2015. Over the past 10 years, annual GDP growth has averaged between 5 and 6 percent, while GDP per capita has doubled. In 2000, only 59 percent of children in Tanzania went to primary school; today almost all are attending. From the onset of comprehensive reforms in 1995, IDA has provided US$3.2 billion to Tanzania.

“Development funding is what has made us what we are today.” In a March 2007 interview, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of Tanzania, acknowledged the role of aid in Tanzania’s progress and laid out his vision of challenges ahead.

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