AbdouKarim Good observation. We need more and cheaper energy for all aspects of development. However many unanswered questions using water both environmental and economics. I don't know any exact answer but nonetheless relevant concerns. I recalled just vaguely PPP was considering a bridge/barrage somewhere close to Farafenni (Barra Kunda) mainly to halt salt instrusion at certain point. Too young both my knowledge and age at the time. Do we know what was it exactly and why/why not. Just curious! Burama On Saturday, May 31, 2014, abdoukarim sanneh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Matarr > Shifting from agriculture even light manufacturing industry cannot be > possible without solving our chronic energy problem. The solution of which > lies using the hydro energy potential of Gambia River. Electrification is > fundamental to our development. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 21:11:18 -0700 > From: [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > Subject: Re: What's Our Make-up & How Was/Is It Managed > To: [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > > Demba, > > Don't be fooled by the comfy offices of the IMF & the WB in Washington, > DC. Along with the OECD, they operate some of the best databanks around. > Half of the data in the report Dr. Jaiteh quoted came from the WB & the > IMF. I don't know about the opposition, but Jammeh and his buddies do > produce reports from data they get in the field. You will find a handful > if you look around. > > Burama, with inflation, I would be careful using the the MDG poverty line > $ amount that was adjusted after the financial crisis by the World Bank to > make a case for getting out of poverty. Sure, Jammeh can finally play his > oil CD and meet the $1.25 MDG requirement, but to be able to say Gambia > truly moved over 1 million people out of poverty, policy makers must > adjust/increase this poverty line to keep up with the rising CPI (between > 5-7% annually). > > China - It can be very dangerous to use China as a case study. The > Chinese had a completely different attitude towards work, nonprofits, > foreign aid and private relief organizations. Basically, almost everything > you are preaching, the Chinese leaders were against, including human > rights. What ensured in China as a result was decades of famine that > ended up killing millions. Given our politics at the moment, I do not see > Gambia going through a similar phase for the sake of sustainable trade just > to lift us out of poverty. > > We should also not get too excited about being poorly managed because we > "have abundant resources"; we are a resource poor nation. In the waters, > there is really not much you can do with our ports these days. We've lost > our competitiveness as a re-exportation hub to other countries in the > sub-region due to ill advised policies from the early days of the APRC > govt. > > Stats - although statistics will help us plan better, but labour > statistics in Africa is generally neither here nor there. No one really > know the real characteristics of our economy since most of it is done in > the informal sector and trying to bring that to the fold is a way more > difficult than we are imagining at the moment. This is where our stats > problem continues to be and it is a phenomenon all African nations are > currently struggling with. > > For Gambia, we will really need to start thinking about adopting policies > that will shift our economy from the agricultural sector and into the > industrial sector. Industrialization as we've seen in all emerging > economies will be key if we are really serious about ending poverty. The > data Dr. Jaiteh forwarded on migration show high rates of rural-urban > migration, and if that is the case, then this is the right time for Gambia > to aggressively pursue industrialization. > > Thanks, > Matarr > > > > > On Friday, May 30, 2014 6:36 PM, Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Demba, > you will mistrust the World Bank or the IMF if you read about them in the > Daily Observer! > > Malanding > > > *From:* The Gambia and Related Issues Mailing List [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Demba > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To > unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web > interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the > List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);> > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤