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Kenya is losing its appeal. For the longest time now, Kenya has been the major economic hub of the region. Tanzania, which has stamped down hard on corruption, has risen to challenge that status quo by invoking the right policies to attract partners in infrastructural development projects within the region.
Projects like the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) arrangement with landlocked Rwanda and the construction of an oil pipeline running through Kenya to Uganda have all fallen through. Yet this is not for any reason other than bad fiscal policies that are not in tandem with those of other countries in the region according to economic experts in Parliament.
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