Marshall Plan urgently needed to rebuild the country
Ideal is not a grand policy but rather a pragmatic way of creating microeconomic opportunities
20 June 2019 - 05:05
I am not going to waste time outlining our unemployment problem, our economic stagnation problem or the remnants of our state incapacity problem. Rather, let me jump right in and say we need a Marshall Plan to rebuild the country.
The country needs rapid implementation of a game-changing set of projects that will set us on a new path. This plan should not be a grand, national policy such as the national development plan, bogged down in 400 pages of technocracy. Instead, it must be a clear, concise, bankable plan to quickly change the socioeconomic topology of the country in a drastic manner. ..
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