The cattle are very thirsty at this point, the rains have not come yet, they need to get to the water points, and water points are dried up all along those regular migration routes, and that has been one of the causes of the friction."
VOA: standard.2010.03.23
The hope is that the package will help stoke consumer demand, which has all but driedup in the country's worst economic crisis in its history.
The commercial paper market represents the short-term loans that corporations issue to one another, a market which has now all but driedup as banks and firms fear lending money to a potential defaulter.