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Jeffrey Sachs Testimony at the UN Security Council Meeting - November 20, 2023

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The man who can speak to power in Ethiopia and appreciating Ethiopia, a prolific scholar, what a privilege?

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Ethiopian political cadres need to pause for a while and forget about how and where they could fill their pockets and listen to this man.

You can worry about filling your pocket, but you can't be sure if you even get back what you have just put in your own pocket the next moment. Simply put you are not just selfish but you lack the required knowledge.

Stability, peace, development for all should be the foundation.

[Abere]

I think the most significant factor accountable for impoverishing Ethiopia is war. War has eaten not only economically active and productive population lives but also the time and meagre resources of the country. All the resources wasted since the era of Derg to today would have transformed Ethiopia at least into one of today's middle/better income countries. As the saying goes, white poor pays white honey, while citizens are dying of starvation the so-called government is spending on buying drones just to kill its own citizen.

Although there are dozens of determinant factors, war and regional instability is the most visible one - perhaps it could explain 90% of the problem. What is most worrying is can Ethiopian even have the power to control this independent factor of war as most of the agents of this regional stability are external agents having unexplainable stake in Ethiopian affairs - And no body even knows the size of their wish list. All the PMs crowned in Ethiopia are puppets.

A country without sustainable governance structure and predictable political environment is a risky investment. A violent
short living government if borrowing money leaves no good legacy but heavy intergeneration debt. The money would be looted, or spent on none-priority items such as palace building or amusement park not on capital investment or worse on procurement of military arsenal. They professor talking about birth control is not a solution to tackle poverty. Only development is the best contraception. His advocacy of birth control is very inappropriate it is population cleansing. Population is a resource and a factor of production of goods and services, just not only a consumers. He should have talked about the anomalous tribal politics that hinders free movement of labor and economic resources. Ethnic apartheid is a hinderance to investment and national wealth creation.

Ethiopian political cadres need to pause for a while and forget about how and where they could fill their pockets and listen to this man.

You can worry about filling your pocket, but you can't be sure if you even get back what you have just put in your own pocket the next moment. Simply put you are not just selfish but you lack the required knowledge.

Stability, peace, development for all should be the foundation.

[DefendTheTruth]

I think the most significant factor accountable for impoverishing Ethiopia is war. War has eaten not only economically active and productive population lives but also the time and meagre resources of the country. All the resources wasted since the era of Derg to today would have transformed Ethiopia at least into one of today's middle/better income countries. As the saying goes, white poor pays white honey, while citizens are dying of starvation the so-called government is spending on buying drones just to kill its own citizen.

Although there are dozens of determinant factors, war and regional instability is the most visible one - perhaps it could explain 90% of the problem. What is most worrying is can Ethiopian even have the power to control this independent factor of war as most of the agents of this regional stability are external agents having unexplainable stake in Ethiopian affairs - And no body even knows the size of their wish list. All the PMs crowned in Ethiopia are puppets.

A country without sustainable governance structure and predictable political environment is a risky investment. A violent
short living government if borrowing money leaves no good legacy but heavy intergeneration debt. The money would be looted, or spent on none-priority items such as palace building or amusement park not on capital investment or worse on procurement of military arsenal. They professor talking about birth control is not a solution to tackle poverty. Only development is the best contraception. His advocacy of birth control is very inappropriate it is population cleansing. Population is a resource and a factor of production of goods and services, just not only a consumers. He should have talked about the anomalous tribal politics that hinders free movement of labor and economic resources. Ethnic apartheid is a hinderance to investment and national wealth creation.

Ethiopian political cadres need to pause for a while and forget about how and where they could fill their pockets and listen to this man.

You can worry about filling your pocket, but you can't be sure if you even get back what you have just put in your own pocket the next moment. Simply put you are not just selfish but you lack the required knowledge.

Stability, peace, development for all should be the foundation.

1- Drones (and any other military hardware) should be bought (if possible also developed) and used as a deterrence to those ill-bent on destabilizing the government (& by the extension the country as whole). Many of them are acting on behalf of the arch-enemies of the country, case in point the so called Monastery-Revolution in the Amhara region running currently.

2- Having too much children that are not yet productive is of course costly, if you want to make progress, then you have to reduce your cost. As simple as that. Currently many children in the Amhara region are not visiting schools, they will going to be a burden down the road, as an instance.

Do you think as a government employee, as an example, you can afford to raise 10 children in the house? No way! You are just preparing them to be burden of the community around you. Africa as a whole is suffering currently under such a burden, which extends all the way to our neighbors on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea and across the Atlantic. People are simply tired of us, we should behave better for our neighbors.

After you have ensured that you can earn more, then you can have more children and care for them, if you would even half time for that. Productive people around the world don't have time to just sit around and produce children, they have to work and work hard.

This is not simply about going to bed and consider the job done afterwards!

[Abere]

DDT,

--- Anyone watched recent interviews of Berhanu Jula and his body language can easily notice how the regime miserably failed. PP-OLF losing 90% of Amhara region to Amhara Fano is what these Drones earned to Jula and Abiy Ahmed. Not counting the mourning mothers of thousands of mothers, especially from Oromia sent on the wrong mission. And surprisingly, most of the weapons procured using either the scarce resources of the country or long term debt ended up in the hands of Amhara Fano. Both the economy and the military aka"ENDF" have become global junk. There is nothing war or purchase of weapons while people dying of starvation in all directions helps or deters. It is fueling further, will stop when PP-OLF is removed by brutal force.

--- The professor is prescribing the wrong medicine for the problem. Killing the human-being ( they yet unborn) so as to economically develop is a very absurd, inhumane, purposeless advice. It could be out of an evil or malice intent. Killing half the population the country to feed another half of the population of the country is cannibalism - that is not moralistic economic development. This guy is advising to spread abortion clinic all over instead of factories. Trying to hide the population by killing and yet to brag about false GDP per capita is no smart but is pure stupid, it is like your likes the math of ማሞ ቂሎ አሥር አህያ እየነዳ ፤ ከአንድኛው አህያ ላይ ተቀምጦ አህዮቸ ስቆጥር 9 ብቻ ሁኑ ጠፋኝ ብሎ ፍለጋ እንደወረደው ነው።

Population control and birth control is not helping to reduce poverty. In a country like Ethiopia, it in fact makes women more fecund and fertile. Fertility is not controlled in the genitalia by wearing condoms or taking bitter pill, it is in the mind and rationality of people. You may have a PhD holder in developing country in Ethiopia and could have 10 kids, given the education is not changing behavior. When the economy develops people makes rational choices in the consumption behavior. In today's Ethiopia, birth control is fallowing a land that prepares them for more births. Also, do not forget Ethiopia reached 120 million people with median age of 18 years means, there is a huge inertia or population momentum that the population will continue to reproduce fast. The best option is to stop war, demolish the ethnic apartheid regime, promote free movement of goods, services and people. Population is a resource if wisely used is a factor of production. It is an asset not a liability. Killing is not a humanly undertaking, any economic gain by killing the yet unborn or the born is crime money or crime economy.

1- Drones (and any other military hardware) should be bought (if possible also developed) and used as a deterrence to those ill-bent on destabilizing the government (& by the extension the country as whole). Many of them are acting on behalf of the arch-enemies of the country, case in point the so called Monastery-Revolution in the Amhara region running currently.

2- Having too much children that are not yet productive is of course costly, if you want to make progress, then you have to reduce your cost. As simple as that. Currently many children in the Amhara region are not visiting schools, they will going to be a burden down the road, as an instance.

Do you think as a government employee, as an example, you can afford to raise 10 children in the house? No way! You are just preparing them to be burden of the community around you. Africa as a whole is suffering currently under such a burden, which extends all the way to our neighbors on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea and across the Atlantic. People are simply tired of us, we should behave better for our neighbors.

After you have ensured that you can earn more, then you can have more children and care for them, if you would even half time for that. Productive people around the world don't have time to just sit around and produce children, they have to work and work hard.

This is not simply about going to bed and consider the job done afterwards!