Malawi is striving to move from poverty to prosperity. How far along the nation is along that spectrum is, of course, questionable but President Bingu wa Mutharika seems to making some right steps towards that. These are some of his comments:
"We are saying we are an economic miracle because, five years ago, we were an economic pariah. The World Bank, the IMF and the donors almost abandoned us, because we were following policies that were not taking us anywhere.
Malawi is not a poor country. The people are poor, and that is where the miracle started..."
"We are saying: why is it that others come out of poverty and the rest stay there? That is what is propelling Malawi. We are determined to come out of poverty. We will come out of poverty and, relatively, in a shorter period perhaps than the others. They invented the wheel. We will not invent a new wheel. We will just make it faster."
allAfrica.com 29 September 2009
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