By Teshome Abebe nazret.com - In my last article titled “ A Matter of Conscience or Strategy ”, I wrote about wining. In that piece, I suggested that wining is not always being first but doing things better than one has ever done before. In this article, I wish to suggest that Ethiopia is a country that is truly looking to the future. As a consequence, it is indeed ‘a nation in a rush’. Let me explain. The first principle of economics is that we cannot have everything we want. Because resources are so limited (abundance is not the theme of economic science) compared to our wants, we are all forced to make choices that, by necessity, require trade-offs. This is inevitable at the individual level as it is also true at the national level. And one of the goals of economic policy is to attempt to raise the standard of living of citizens. Whether one agrees with it or not, and there are genuine and differing opinions here, Ethiopia has been attempting to raise the standard of living of