Ethiopia has embarked on an ambitions Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project. This ambitious project is achievable because the government and the people of Ethiopia have drawn unlimited focus upon all aspects and using all facets for its construction. This Project is intended among others to make enormous step in order to move the country forward for a better and brighter future and in order to bring rapid transformation to the people of our nation. The government and people of Ethiopia are uplifted, motivated and dedicated more than ever to move this country forward with leather like intensity and determination to eliminating poverty, illiteracy, and backwardness and to achieve sustainable development thereby to bring about prosperity, economic growth and political maturity throughout the country. The construction of this Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will therefore play yet greatest role in that regard.
The firm determination on the part of the government and the people of Ethiopia will change the nation for the better once and for all with the construction of this magnanimous Dam. The last ten years, Ethiopia has and continues to score a double digit economic growth (11 per cent on average) following an agriculture led industrialization through a balanced macro-economic policy and through a fair distribution of wealth by regulating and controlling inflation and by allocating over 70 per cent of the national budget on poverty reduction and over 20 per cent on education unmatched by any other African country. This has made Ethiopia amongst the fastest economic growing nations in the world. This pace will continue and within the next five years the national economy will be two fold and agriculture will also double enhancing national productivity. The construction of this GERD will definitely play an important role in enhancing the Ethiopian economy. For this magnanimous project to succeed, government, non-government institutions, investors both from within and abroad and the public at large from within and the Diaspora must do their share of responsibilities.
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