Lack of Street Addresses as a Bottleneck for Urbanization
There are many things provided as public goods that people in other parts of the world take for granted. Many of those public goods simply do not exist out here in Tanzania, and the importance of those public goods are not realized until they are found to be non-existent. One of these public goods is street addresses. Even in the largest and most developed cities of the country, most streets have no names, there is no such thing as house numbering even on the streets that do have names. Partially given the woeful state of the postal system , no systematic effort is undertaken to change this reality.