Tanzania’s economy growing, but limited decline in poverty

The passage in this article in the August 2 2005 Financial Times particularly caught my attention:

The government is looking for ways of filling "the missing middle" between
family-scale operations and large companies.

It is interesting to think about what you need in order to fill that gap.

Coincidentally, there is an article in a recent McKinsey quarterly about a giant family company (in Indonesia) that discusses the same thing, albeit from a very different perspective. I'll try to track it down.