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Inflation Momentum in Ethiopia: An Urgent Need for Prudent Monetary Policy

February 13 , 2021 . By Abu Girma Moges

Finding prices is the primary function of markets. By bringing the forces of demand and supply into action, a well-functioning competitive market system allows for a more realistic regime of relative prices in an economy. This is crucial because prices signal vital information to millions of decisio...

With Advances in Science, Technology Innovation, Ethiopia Faces StrongFuture

February 6 , 2021 . By Fisseha Mekuria (PhD)

Ethiopia currently stands at a major juncture, where a great deal has occurred just in 2020 alone. To respond to the call for sustainable peace, economic development and prosperity for all, Ethiopia's state of innovation needs to be reassessed. Peace and the country’s long-term prosperity lies in...

Movable Property: Getting Legal Framework Right to Unleash Potential

February 6 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

The Lessons for Economic Growth from the Developmentalists

January 31 , 2021 . By Ayele Tirfie Woldemichael (Prof.)

One-Person Company, Late but Critical Addition to Commercial Code

January 31 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

Far-sighted Policies, Down to Earth Planners Can Revitalise Agriculture

January 23 , 2021 . By Ayele Tirfie Woldemichael

How to Tackle Vulnerable Countries’ Triple Crisis

January 23 , 2021 . By Manish Bapna and Muhammad Musa

Reconciliation: Underrated Element in the Transitional Justice Process of Ethiopia

January 16 , 2021 . By Girma Gadisa

It's Never Too Late to Restart Ethiopia's Politics, Economic Circumstances

January 16 , 2021 . By Senay Lemma and Solomon Girma

Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) took office in April 2018, his administration has kick-started a series of political and economic policy reforms that hold the promise of improving Ethiopia’s economic and political prospects and political stability. Unfortunately, this was punctuated by the r...

Ethiopia Ought to Capitalise on China’s Global Economic Leap Forward

January 9 , 2021 . By Nasreen M. Adem

Sino-Africa economic and development relations have a long history. In modern times, it dates back to the 1950s. However, it was mainly since the Chinese economy underwent a rapid economic transformation in the 2000s and subsequent implementation of the Go Global Strategy that Chinese foreign direct...

The Many Tentacles of Regional Planning

January 9 , 2021 . By Ayele Tirfie Woldemichael (Prof.)

Ethiopia’s Opportunity to Become 'Green Island in a Dry Land Sea'

January 3 , 2021 . By Michael Street

Pigouvian Tax: the Solution to Ethiopia’s Plastic Bottle Pollution

January 3 , 2021 . By Clay Webster

Trees Don’t Always Bring Water Security, but Science Can Help

January 3 , 2021 . By Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot (PhD)

The Next Frontier of Transport, Logistics: Digitisation of Services

December 26 , 2020 . By Dagmawit Moges

Agriculture's SMEs, the Vital Ingredient to Food Security in East Africa

December 26 , 2020 . By Chimimba David Phiri (PhD)

Lack of Regulation, in Reality, Explains Ethiopian's Success

December 19 , 2020 . By Yeshiwas Fentahun

The Council of Ministers has recently green-lighted Ethiopia’s 10-Year Perspective Plan...

The Measure of Financial Regulators’ Independence

December 19 , 2020 . By Howard Davies

The Council of Ministers has recently green-lighted Ethiopia’s 10-Year Perspective Plan...

COVID-19 Offers Opportunity to Relive Commitment for Universal Coverage

December 11 , 2020 . By Boureima Hama Sambo (MD)

The Council of Ministers has recently green-lighted Ethiopia’s 10-Year Perspective Plan...

Draft Commercial Code Offers a Future of Prospect for Professional Class

December 11 , 2020 . By Kefale Aschalew

The Council of Ministers has recently green-lighted Ethiopia’s 10-Year Perspective Plan...


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Plus ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose. Or Do They?

April 30 , 2021

Nothing can better describe Ethiopia's state of affairs today than the French idiom:...

With Evolving Financial Sector, Central Bank Needs to Step Up its Game

April 24 , 2021

There were no surprises when the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) decided two weeks ag...

Spiritual Leaders Can Be Exception. If They Will It

April 17 , 2021

There is not a facet of life in Ethiopia today that is not convulsed by the moral cri...

Regional Fiscal Perfidy Stems from an Indulgent Fed. Alarming!

April 10 , 2021

It is not often the case for regional states' leaders to swallow their vanity and dec...

Sunday With Eden

How Heroes Make it Through Intense Hardship

Among the people I was privileged enough to work with is Dereje Wordofa (PhD), a grea...

Ageism Doesn't Age Well, but Wisdom Does

I was at a supermarket on Thursday morning when I had to stand in a line to pay for...

Life Matters

The Art of Labelling Emotions Correctly

I was recently introduced to a lady with mild symptoms of bipolar disorder, a mental...

Teachers of the New Age

Teachers, even though underrated, play an important and undeniable role in shaping generations. Some join the profession out of convenience...

Agenda

Easter Market Feeling the Pressure

April 30 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

To anyone who had visited Shola Gebeya two months ago, it may have looked like one of Addis Abeba’s popular open markets was under self-im...

Remittance, Losing its Battle Against the Parallel Market

April 24 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

Opened a few weeks ago, the Birmaji branch of the Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO), on Africa Avenue (Bol...

What's Interest Free for Banking, Takaful for Insurance on Market

April 17 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

It was an African invention, first developed in Sudan in the 1970s. An Arabic word roughly translated to...

On Forex Front, New Rules Bring New Problems

April 10 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

For Fitsum Alemayehu (MD), general manager of Biotech Plc, an importer of pharmaceuticals, the waiting fo...

Gallery

2020 in Posterity

January 5 , 2021

With an election initially expected to be held in 2020, the past year was supposed to be eventful. It did not disappoint. In fact, it outpaced expectations. Much of 2020 was talked about, analysed and debated. And thanks to technology, it was caught...

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

September 9 , 2020

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

December 14 , 2019

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

Commentaries

The Misconception of the 'Sectarianism' of Interest-free Finance

Two years ago, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) allowed the operation of full-fled...

New Bankruptcy Regime No Longer Punishes but Rehabilitates

The intention of any business is to make a profit. But loss and failure may happen in...

Fineline

Leaders of the National . . .

Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the me...

When the country’s most. . .

When the country’s most senior diplomats and envoys return back to their posts after two-week debriefings, they leave behind a point or tw...

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THE SO-SO EASTER MARKET

April 30 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

As the fasting season came to an end over the past week, followers of the Christian faith prepared to celebrate Easter and surreptitiously a...

Limits on Mobile Money, Tower Market Push Bidders to Opt-out of Telecom Bid

April 30 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

Telecom developers opted out of the race for the two operational licenses in Ethiopia as the government r...

Court Grants Bail to Mulugeta Tesfakiros

April 30 , 2021 . By KIDIST NEKATIBEB and HAWI DADHI

The Federal High Court fifth division corruption bench has granted bail for the amount of 80,000 Br to Mu...

Awash Strikes Deal with Growing Money Platform to Reach Unbanked Population

April 30 , 2021 . By BAMLAK FIKADU

The fastest-growing mobile money provider in the Somali Region, Rays Microfinance, the creator of Sahay,...

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