EPRDF's leaders, in what seemed to be unprecedented transparency, told us the facts on the ground, while assessing the achievements and failures of the first Growth & Transformation Plan (GTP I). According to some critics, this is perhaps the first time key government, as well as party, officials have come to grips with the danger that lies ahead threatning the collapse of the country's economy.
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn rightly pointed out some of the precarious issues that are looming. He touched upon the lack of good governance, rent collection, corruption, polarisation along narrow ethnic lines, presumptuous attitudes of superiority and other challenges.
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