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The Power of Data Can Unleash the Potential of Smallholders

May 8 , 2021 . By Habtamu Yesigat (PhD)

When I met a farmer – Takele - in northern Ethiopia, it was a season of rain that was too little and too late. Together with a wrong decision about when and what to plant, he and his family had been ruined. After the crop failure on his three fragments of land, which together amounted to less than...

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

April 30 , 2021 . By Kamil Abdu Oumer

Two years ago, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) allowed the operation of full-fledged interest-free banking (IFB) business for the first time in the country's history. Following the directive, many full-fledged interest-free banks began their formation process, and two of them have already receiv...

New Bankruptcy Regime No Longer Punishes but Rehabilitates

April 30 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

The Horse and the Cart of Capital Markets

April 30 , 2021 . By Zelalem Bezabih

New Capital Threshold, Small Inconvenience for Some, Existential Risk for Others

April 24 , 2021 . By Abdulmenan Mohammed

With Ever More Complex Markets, Consumer Protection is Everyone's Business

April 24 , 2021 . By Bereket Alemayehu

Fruitful Offer of New Arbitration for Business Community

April 17 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

African Blue Economy Can Ride the AfCTA Wave

April 17 , 2021 . By Mokrane Sabri

Done Right, Education System Can Extract Maximum Value with Limited Resources

April 10 , 2021 . By Samuel Wolde-Yohannes (PhD)

Economic and political development go hand in hand with a good educational system. The general view is that the more a country invests in its educational infrastructure, the better chance it has to produce a large number of educated citizens who would realise a more prosperous and better-governed co...

Despite Friendly Labour Law, Employees Contend with Arbitration

April 10 , 2021 . By Gidey Belay

Arbitration is a means of dispute settlement that has gained world-wide attention mainly in commercial and investment disputes. Cases are decided by (a) third entity(ies) appointed by the parties formally known as arbitrator(s). The decision of the arbitration tribunal is binding, final and, enforce...

Ethiopia's Commercial Code Joins 21st Century

April 3 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

If Authorities' Wish, It Could Also be the Sudanese Renaissance Dam

April 3 , 2021

Prevailing Investor-State Dispute Settlement Hardly Stately

March 27 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

One Pathogen to Another, Lessons from Fight Against COVID-19 to Malaria

March 27 , 2021 . By Benji Pretorius (MD)

Untamed Nationalism Consumes All that Stand in Its Way

March 20 , 2021 . By Girma Gadisa

In Perturbed Ethiopia, Election Offers Rare Moment for Paradigm Shift

March 20 , 2021 . By Desta Mebratu (Prof.)

To Find Fitting Investment Treaty, Look to China

March 13 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

Parliament unanimously passed the revised Commercial Code late last month, over six decade...

Workplace Accidents: Preventable Misfortunes, Not Inevitable

March 13 , 2021 . By Sebagadis Abay Meressa

Parliament unanimously passed the revised Commercial Code late last month, over six decade...

Disasters: Tragic the First Time Around, Calamitous When Repeated

March 6 , 2021 . By Asegid Getachew

Parliament unanimously passed the revised Commercial Code late last month, over six decade...

When Special Drawing Rights Aren’t Special

March 6 , 2021 . By Hannah Wanjie Ryder and Gyude Moore

Parliament unanimously passed the revised Commercial Code late last month, over six decade...


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Clouds Gathering on Inflation, Policy Consistency Keeps the Rain at Bay

July 24 , 2021

There was an alarming increase in the price of Teffin August 2017. It suddenly skyroc...

Voters Want Stability, Order. Prosperity Can Find It through Negotiated Settlement

July 18 , 2021

The function held by the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) to announce the...

Absent Competent Bureaucracy, Economic Policies Get Stuck

July 10 , 2021

There is no shortage of drafts beings drawn, and bills authored these days. The more...

War's Fruitless, Horrific; Better Late than Never to Give Peace a Chance

July 3 , 2021

For the curious interested in political studies, the twists and turns unfolding in Et...

Sunday With Eden

Society that Lacks Reading Culture Bound to Fail, on Repeat

It is not unheard of for adults to proudly declare that they never read books or arti...

Dare Converse on Politics, But with Reason, Open Mind

A group of us, friends, met over the weekend. Unsurprisingly, the conversation soon v...

Life Matters

Understood without Translation: When White People Speak Local

It is a universal thing for friends to use a secret language, or one assumed to be no...

Apple a Day Keeps the Ethiopian Health System Away

Not long ago, a friend’s relative became sick. Her grandson rushed her to a hospita...

Agenda

Import's Wild-Wild West

July 24 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

This year has been anything but a good year for Gabriela Esayas, a businesswoman who started a few years ago. Ordinarily, she would impor...

Deposit Mobilisation Barely Keeping Up With Cash Hoarding, Inflation

July 18 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

A businessman trading in electronics, Abel never thought he would be burdened in making timely payments f...

Trouble Tying Construction Firms with Banks, Insurance Looms Large

July 11 , 2021 . By SAMUEL BOGALE

Established over two decades ago when a handful of businesspeople were interested in joining the construc...

Starting Business Never Gets Easier

July 3 , 2021 . By SAMUEL BOGALE

Finding a job in the Ethiopian labour market had been all but a pleasant experience for Lamesgen Wubshet, a graduate of computer engineering...

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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...

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Commentaries

Farmers Sell for Pennies. Markets Starve for Agri-products. Where's the Missing Link?

While traveling from Hawassa, currently a capital to both the Southern and Sidama reg...

With Ethiopia's Capital Market, Say Hello to Debt Instrument Financing

In a bid to open up the economy, parliament recently revised Ethiopia’s Commercial...

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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Ministry Redefines 'New' for Vehicle Taxation

July 24 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

Customs authorities have been directed to consider all motor vehicles imported within...

Shipping Enterprise Gives Waiver to Importers

Local importers have begun receiving waivers from the Ethiopian Shipping & Logist...

Ethiopia Recalls All Diplomats But Ambassadors, Finance Heads

July 24 , 2021 . By SAMUEL BOGALE

All Ethiopian diplomats, barring ambassadors and heads of finance, have been instruct...

Cement Prices Hike as Gov't Removes Price Controls

July 24 , 2021 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

Barely a week after the government set aside its cement market regulatory policy, cem...

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