But each country should look at the economic model that best suits its dynamics. Do you think there are some parallels? My sense — and this is my own observation — is that the Chinese economic model of success resonates with the current Ethiopian economic situation, given that China has gone through this growth in recent history.
The model under which they had high economic growth given the base where they started is very relevant to Ethiopia because it is where China was 25 years ago. I am sure the Chinese have made their calculations about placing this kind of money in Ethiopia.
The primary drivers of the economic models are the Ethiopians themselves and they have to decide what works best for them. Do you think there is a sacrifice between economic development and human rights? I would look at them separately. Ethiopia can grow without having those things attached to economic progress. Without that, your survival cannot be ensured. It is an interesting view.
You can grow without adequately providing these things, but the entire system and your entire survival over time could be questioned because you have to have a democratic society that aspires for a brighter future. Ethiopia is a very young democracy. Now, one can argue the pace in the last 20 years could have been faster. And others would say this is actually good in just a year period. If the pace is not fast enough, maybe that needs to be accelerated.
I spent most of my time in the US and it took Americans a long time to be able to establish that, and I think we have to create that space for African and developing countries to be able to do that. But if that rate of progress is slow, I think everyone should push that to be accelerated. Ethiopia is surrounded by unstable neighbours. How does it manage to remain stable and develop in such a rough neighbourhood?
I think again Ethiopia deserves a lot of credit for its strength — it has very strong military capabilities that have served it well — but also for their diplomacy is strong. Perhaps with the exception of Eritrea, Ethiopia has managed to have a very good and respectful relationship with the other countries. Even in the case of Sudan and South Sudan conflicts, Ethiopia has been the lead mediator trusted by all parties in this conflict. Ethiopia is also supporting peace efforts in Somalia.
Ethiopia has done well in building its own military capability to protect itself but also playing a role in mediating these conflicts and finding lasting solutions to the challenges that the region faces.
So I think that has to be one of the successes of Ethiopia. The other interesting story around this is its willingness to help other people. Yet, Haile said, "the unmet need for family planning in Ethiopia still remains at 36 percent, which means [there is] still work to be done. Increasing girls' education and women's opportunities can help improve women's health and stabilize population growth. Although Ethiopia spends a "laudable" 19 percent of its budget on education, reproductive health is not yet well integrated into the curriculum.
As in other countries, Haile observed, "young girls get less opportunities than boys because of domestic responsibilities. Underlying these problems is the Ethiopian government's poor implementation of policies. Although the government has committed itself to reducing poverty and meeting the Millennium Development Goals, its programs are not horizontally integrated, and focus on immediate crises rather than long-term environmental and population problems.
Although Ethiopia has developed an environmental policy that recognizes the impact of population factors on the environment, "like most of our policy documents, this one… suffers from lack of implementation," said Haile, who noted with frustration that Ethiopia's government seems to be "more interested in developing policies than implementing them. That is what we are advocating. Health programs also suffer from lack of implementation.
In urban areas, patients occupy more than half the hospital beds. However, in the central part of the southern region, "there has been awareness that population density does matter, that it's related to landlessness, lack of education, unemployment, and out-migration.
Despite the challenges Ethiopia faces, Haile sees opportunities to incorporate population, health, and environment issues into the country's poverty reduction strategies.
Democratization and decentralization allow decision-making to occur at sub-national levels, where local authorities are more willing to confront the local population and environment problems they face. A small but growing civil society is engaged in poverty reduction efforts that connect population and environment issues.
Increased use of open-market operations is expected to reduce inflation gradually. The current account is likely to deteriorate in before improving in as service exports gradually pick up. The key downside risks to the economic outlook include low investor confidence, in part due to sporadic domestic conflicts, weakness in global growth, and climate change. To date, approximately , km have been built and upgraded under RSDP.
IDA has worked with other development partners including the African Development Bank, European Union, and other bilateral partners in building country capacity in areas like road asset management including piloting of performance based contracts , road safety, enhancing climate resilience, boosting road agency safeguards management, and expanding on the Expressway Development Program.
Both the government and the majority of international partners are keen to deepen the harmonization process in the spirit of the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action Partners are currently considering how to build on this progress in light of the Accra Agenda. Much of the collective effort is focused on furthering harmonization through major multi-donor programs and policy areas of importance.
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