Dar es Salaam, March 20 -- DODOMA: “ROADS are the arteries through which the economy pulses,” says Claudia Berg, a Development Research Group worker at the World Bank.

Berg holds this view due to the vital role roads play in driving a countrys economy.

According to the researcher, roads link producers to markets, workers to jobs, students to schools and the sick to hospitals.

Given their importance, since 2002, the World Bank has invested heavily in constructing or rehabilitating more than 260,000 km of roads.

The sector has become more crucial compared to others because it provides access to essential social services such as education and healthcare while fostering trade, extraction and agriculture.

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