Malawi Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe has been voted as the Best African Minister of the Year by his colleagues during a meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Board held in Washington, DC., in the USA recently, APA learnt here Thursday.
Goodall told journalists in Lilongwe on Thursday that fellow Finance Ministers from across the world who were meeting recently in Washington to, among others, discuss and come up with possible solutions to the financial turmoil currently facing Third World countries, voted him the award.
\"I am very pleased to be voted as the Minister of the Year. This was very good encouragement for me as an individual as well as the nation,\" he said.
The veteran economist who has worked for the African Development Bank and the World Bank before landing the finance portifolio, won the top accolade for the economic achievements Malawi has realised during the four years that he has been the country’s financial guru.
Thursday 23 October 2008
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