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This report presents an update on the
economic challenges facing Ethiopia with a focus on the
shared goal of accelerating equitable growth. The starting
point is the Government's own Plan for Accelerated and
Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP), which is in
the process of finalization, and is designed to cover the
period 2005-2010. This report proposes that the growth
strategy should more explicitly adopt a
"two-legged" approach that would both (a)
consolidate and deepen an essentially balanced, broad-based
and inclusive growth strategy and (b) adopt a more selective
approach to speed up growth, allowing for identification and
support for dynamic new activities, based on private and
public sector discoveries, innovations, and partnerships.
This report suggests ways forward to complement and
strengthen the PASDEP. It brings together recent analysis
and thinking from a range of sources, to put forth a
storyline and key elements of the strategy in Part I. The
second part provides a series of chapters on key themes -
viz. recent and longer term economic developments, rural
development, the private sector, the infrastructure
challenge, and the institutions and governance. The report
seeks to provide adequate coverage of the major challenges
facing Ethiopia in its efforts to accelerate equitable
growth, drawing on work across a range of themes including
the Institutional and Governance Review.
