25 in 30 minutes. 25 four wheel drive pickups and range rovers emblazoned with UNICEF, DFID, USAID, JICA, UNFPA, PACT, World Vision . . . Even the Icelandic Development Agency has two trucks in Lilongwe, and we saw a few in Monkey Bay as well. That means nearly a dollar from each of the 280,000 Icelanders just for the their country's truck stock in Malawi. OK, so maybe I cheated a little by planting myself at the corner of the South Africa headquartered shop-'til-you-drop superstore, Shoptrite, with a selection to dazzle any development worker, and prices to keep all but the top income decile of Malawians far far away. But sketchy sampling aside, this place is overrun with development trucks. They wind their way around Lilongwe, and from headquarters to home. Every once in a while,
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