Tanzania: Is the Ugly Duckling Finally Growing up?: A Report for the OECD project "Emerging Africa", Research Report 120

The title of this report is inspired by the great Danish author Hans Christian Andersen who in the children’s tale "Den Grimme Ælling" ("The Ugly Duckling") tells the story of a particularly ugly duckling. She is so ugly, in fact, that she is despised and disliked by all the other ducks and ducklings. After a long and painful period of time, however, she grows up — but not to become an ugly duck. Instead she becomes a beautiful white swan, admired by all. So Andersen’s tale has a happy ending…