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    "id": 219167,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, May 29, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1695 Sir. I will try to say as much as possible. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I believe it is time that hon. Members take this well deserved rest. It has been a rather hectic time and a number of things have happened. All this has been happening against a backdrop of very good things happening within the country as we have witnessed with the recent statistics, with the confirmation that our economy is still on a very upward trend, having started from 0.6 per cent in 2002, going right through 5.7 per cent and now 6.1 per cent. Projections now are that we are heading to anything above the 6.1 per cent towards 7 per cent, 10 per cent and, eventually, we will start moving away from poverty to prosperity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that has happened in the course of this Session is the confirmation that we all knew; that poverty has actually come down. As I listen to my colleague talking about poverty in his area, in Taita, I was surprised because all the statistics that we have are showing that, on a general level, costs have actually come down or are being maintained. Even if they have come up, in real terms, the actual cost to the people is lower, given that they are now deriving higher incomes on an average basis. But the actual cost at the individual level is lower, although producer prices are higher. So, on a net basis, we know that our people are better off than they were before. That is something that we should be celebrating and we need to thank God for having given us a peaceful country and the good leadership that has enabled our economy to grow and helped our people to come out of poverty into prosperity and setting the pace for our children to enjoy more than we have enjoyed ourselves. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that we should be very proud of is the normalisation of our relations with our development partners. We know that we have been having problems. However, as of now, as we speak, we are in good books with the World Bank---"
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