I am proud to say that fully committed foreign aid, not merely pledges, now stand at 6.5 billion dollars, |
I am quite confident that the policy environment is quite conducive for taking our economy towards a six to eight percent growth path with significant reduction in poverty over the next three to five years. |
Our own interaction with the public and different organizations have reflected similar concerns, ... My task is to address all these concerns in a viable economic and financial framework as well as within our overall pro-poor policy framework that our government announced last year. |
The economy is performing well and we will follow through on the path we set out in the last budget, |
We have written to the finance ministers of the G-8 countries. We have asked basically for a total of five years because we are tsunami affected and think it will take that amount of time for rehabilitation. |
We were able to maintain 6 percent growth this year despite increase of world oil prices, tsunami effect and many more in the country, |