Namibia: Economic Crisis is About the Society We Chose

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Ben Gurirab, MP Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the Worldwide Economic Downturn at the 2009 NCSL's Legislative Summit, Philadelphia, USA, 20 July 2009.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this Conference takes place at a critical time as policymakers and economists try to come to grips with an unprecedented global economic crisis affecting people everywhere. I therefore welcome this opportunity to share with you some of the salient points emerging from discussions in the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Before doing that, however, I will briefly touch upon the situation on the African continent and in my own country, Namibia.

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