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Article: DAR ES SALAAM.(Tanzania's largest city and busiest port)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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The pace of change in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city and busiest port, has been little short of relentless. Radical economic reform packages have transformed almost every aspect of life in the city, as Stephen Williams reports.
Even if its famous lethargic character has not quite disappeared, in many respects Dar es Salaam has reinvented itself as a thoroughly modern African city. Over last decade, what was always a difficult city for visitors has been shrugging off its socialist leanings and enthusiastically embracing a liberalised market economy.
Nothing illustrates this better than the fact that investors have the services of a new 'one stop' ...