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Article: Eleventh hour for Ethiopia: best-selling author Philip Marsden argues that Ethiopia must wean itself off international aid and its own campaign-led development strategy and build a sustainable future based on grass-roots micro-finance schemes that take into account the country's enormous diversity.(DEVELOPMENT)
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- Geographical
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- February 1, 2006
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IT WAS LATE afternoon. The sun was cooling, spreading its yellowy light over an area of open terraces. On the first day of a two-month walk through the northern highlands of Ethiopia, I was full of anxious expectation. But the path looked fiat and benign, winding ahead through stands of eucalyptus past a man driving a pair of oxen ahead of a wooden plough. Then, suddenly, it stopped. The land disappeared. In its place, a vast nothingness opened out at my feet. Row upon row of ridges and broken sections of plateau stretched away for 60 kilometres or more.
Little can really be understood about Ethiopia--not its enduring remoteness and tenacious survival, nor its ...