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Given a chance to run a country in Africa,18 million people, 86% literacy, agriculture based economy, poor infrastructure what would you do?

If you were given a chance to run a country in Africa,18 million people, 86% literacy, agriculture based economy, poor infrastructure, least developed, low life expectancy, high infant mortality, High HIV/Aids prevalence, Acute shortage of Forex, Fuel and Unreliable Electricity Supply, what would you do?

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    Philipp Wettmann

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    Aug 7 2011: -Hopefully, I could take advatage of the problem of overaging in western societies and there fear, to become unimportant because of the sheer amount of people in China and India by inviting industrial countries, to found immigrant preparation centers all over the country, were people can learn there languages, get trained in needed professions and tested on there health, skills and political opinion.
    This would bring mony to the local food markets, increase the number of persons, who work in a richer country and support there families at home, it would provide the hope for a better life and channel the energie of those, who are dissatisfied. The centers also might help, to build up infrastructure. The country would save mony on education using the partly trained dropouts and it would be easyer to outsource jobs to this land because of the language skills.

    -I would make prostitution formally gouvernmant-controled, treat all sexual activety of not marryed couples as prostitution allow only healthy people to get married and spend not much mony on enforcing this.

    -To increase there dependency upon each other and to connect them with the internet, I would encourage the village communities to build a man powered telegraph-network with the technology described in this talk:
    http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb.html

    Just for a start.

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