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On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Interesting questions Burama. I guess with the land, population density,
> agriculture, forestry etc.. Dr. Jaiteh can help us. Him and I had a similar
> discussion that looked at our overpopulation, agricultural land and
> erosion. He is with us here and may have done some modern approach research
> into such data... Dr. can you help us with some insights? These are good
> observations... For me we are poorly managed but record keeping, reliable
> statistics are an epidemic problem.
>
> It would be interesting to look at population, resources vs economic
> development. China comes to mind with over a billion people but their
> economy and standard of living continue to improve.. Yet there is arguably
> no Democracy in China.. How do we reconcile those contradicting
> approaches... Does a nation have to have Democracy and them to develop? How
> about human rights? Interesting and stimulating questions..
>
> Thanks
>
> Demba
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> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Burama Jammeh <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>> wrote:
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>> Estimates has it that at the dawn of independence we were less than 1/2
>> million people. Today extrapolated estimates put us at 1.7million people.
>> Estimated average density of about 125 people/km
>>
>> Area - about 11K sq. km
>> Water surface - 1300 sq. km
>> Rainfall - about 800-1000mm
>>
>> Human capital - high school? Undergraduate? Graduate?
>>
>> Foreign financial/cash aid ?
>> Foreign food aid ?
>> Foreign developmental aid including NGOs ?
>>
>> Forest cover - 4800sq.km this includes shrub and savanahs in 2010.
>> Substantially more even in late 70s. Still waiting for someone at the Dept.
>> on the earlier numbers. 66 national parks with 34000ha
>>
>> Agricultural land - 6650sq. Km
>>
>> Notice that there are overlaps in the area estimates water + forests +
>> agriculture leaves nothing for settlements. That's understandable from
>> classification but settlement areas is a significant land use that should
>> stand alone.
>>
>> Estimates indicates 55% of all Gambians live in the urban area. If urban
>> area is GBA which excludes Brikama we are in serious trouble. Regardless we
>> are already in serious trouble. The answers are in the health statistics -
>>  WHO estimates of 2010.
>>
>> Economic data / formal and informal sector.
>> Government formed the bigger chunk of the formal. Bad record keep if any.
>> How is the informal sector captured is everyone's imagination - tailors,
>> carpenters, cottage industries, agriculture, etc.
>>
>> Social statistic - population, birth, dead, vehicles, passports, ID, etc.
>>
>> How are decisions made? Have you ever listen to the famous finance
>> minister budget speeches with impressive numbers of growth? I would
>> estimate an average of 3% growth since I started following. How then are we
>> so poor? Why then the economy essential excludes larger portion of our
>> people? You can ask 1 million questions!
>>
>> Can we manage a nation democratically without fact based information?
>> Imagine if you remove a registration place from a 2014 white T/Corolla and
>> place on another of the same specifications. How can we tell which one it
>> belongs? How many of us has multi passports or IDs without any reference to
>> the earlier issues? The same is true for birth records. No record of dead
>> as far as I know.
>>
>> We have a systemic problem and not a person problem. It can only be fix
>> by cultural reorientation and not simply reshuffling the deck of cards.
>>
>> Are we after all POOR or Poorly MANAGED?
>>
>> I simply have an idea on the how.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Burama
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