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president irfaan ali welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr president, you lead a country which by many measures, has the fastest growing economy in the world. it is down to you to ensure that this massive windfall your country has is used wisely and fairly. do you feel the pressure? i don t think it s a pressure. it definitely is a challenge, but it is an opportunity. and to understand this growth and what it means for our country, i think you have to have an appreciation also from where we came and the type of difficulties we ve overcome as a country to be where we are today. and that gives you an understanding as to the starting point. and the starting point for guyana has never been oil and gas. we are a country that came through a very painful past, 28 years of dictatorship. we had democracy reinstalled in 1992, and then from then we had, we were the second poorest country in the hemisphere. 0ur debt to gdp ratio was insanely high. we are using $0.98 on every dollar to ....
president irfaan ali. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr president, you lead a country which by many measures, has the fastest growing economy in the world. it is down to you to ensure that this massive windfall your country has is used wisely and fairly. do you feel the pressure? i don t think it s a pressure. it definitely is a challenge, but it is an opportunity. and to understand this growth and what it means for our country, i think you have to have an appreciation also from where we came and the type of difficulties we ve overcome as a country to be where we are today. and that gives you an understanding as to the starting point. and the starting point for guyana has never been oil and gas. we are a country that came through a very painful past, 28 years of dictatorship. we had democracy reinstalled in 1992, and then from then we had, we were the second poorest country in the hemisphere. 0ur debt to gdp ratio was insanely high. we are using $0.98 on every dollar t ....
a blessing or a curse? president irfaan ali. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr president, you lead a country which by many measures, has the fastest growing economy in the world. it is down to you to ensure that this massive windfall your country has is used wisely and fairly. do you feel the pressure? i don t think it s a pressure. it definitely is a challenge, but it is an opportunity. and to understand this growth and what it means for our country, i think you have to have an appreciation also from where we came and the type of difficulties we ve overcome as a country to be where we are today. and that gives you an understanding as to the starting point. and the starting point for guyana has never been oil and gas. we are a country that came through a very painful past, 28 years of dictatorship. we had democracy reinstalled in 1992, and then from then we had, we were the second poorest country in the hemisphere. 0ur debt to gdp ratio was insanely high. we are using ....