DARES SALAAM, June 24 -- STRONGER growth in exports of goods and services contributed largely to improvement of external sector performance with the current account deficit narrowing to 2.22 billion US dollars compared with 2.73 billion US dollars in the period ending April last year.

According to latest Bank of Tanzania monthly economic review, the exports of goods and services grew by 16.8 per cent to 16.68 billion US dollars from 14.28 billion US dollars in the period ending April last year.

The increase was driven by exports of gold, travel (tourism), agricultural products and transportation services.

The Bank report shows that exports of goods, which accounted for 58.4 per cent of the total exports of goods and services, rose to 9...