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With Uncertainty, the Best Defense's Offense in Innovation

August 7 , 2021 . By Asseged G. Medhin

Amid unpredictable financial markets, blurred fiscal and monetary policies and economic lockdowns, asset owners across the developed world have needed to adapt quickly. They face significant challenges in building and managing their portfolios in today’s new normal. Everything is under the spotlig...

Helping the Poor to Survive Lockdown

August 7 , 2021 . By Risto Rönkkö and Kunal Sen

Even as rich countries begin to glimpse the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, developing countries are struggling to contain COVID-19. But there are important lessons from the past year that can help governments to devise more effective policies and programs to support their poorest residents...

State-sanctioned Treasury Bills Spoils Gov't, the Market Offers Salvation

July 31 , 2021 . By Abdulmenan Mohammed

One More Treaty for Gov't, One Giant Leap towards Legal Certainty for Businesses

July 31 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

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

July 24 , 2021 . By Habtamu Yesigat (PhD)

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

July 24 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

The Four Deadly Sins of the Bureaucracy: Corruption, Malpractice, Waste, Sloth

July 18 , 2021 . By Abdulmenan Mohammed

Short of Judgement Execution Predictability, Federal System becomes Unruly

July 18 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

Sliding Exchange Rate of Birr Could Cash Out in Currency Crisis

July 10 , 2021 . By Abu Girma Moges

There is often confusion about the exchange rate and what it represents. It is the price of a currency relative to other currencies or a basket of currencies. Unlike the price of goods and services, this price is unique and abstract in the way that it represents the relative state and dynamism of th...

The G20 Must Act Now to Vaccinate the World

July 10 , 2021 . By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Juliana Bartels

When G20 finance ministers meet in Venice on July 9 and 10, they should adopt a plan to immunise the world against COVID-19. Every vaccine-producing country will be in the room: the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, China, Russia, and India. Together, these countries produce eno...

As Ethiopia's Economy Opens Up, Law Firms No Longer Defile the Legal Profession

July 3 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

Ethiopia's Bitter Sugar Sector Can Yet Become Sweet

July 3 , 2021 . By Austine Sequeira

New Commercial Code 'Freezes Out' Modern Safeguards for Minority Shareholders

June 26 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn and Dagmawit Kifle

How to Feed 'Ourselves'

June 26 , 2021 . By Gilbert F. Houngbo

Firms Never Too Young to be Socially Responsible

June 19 , 2021 . By Michael Harshavardhan (PhD)

Female Political Participation Remains at the Nadir, The Law Can Nudge Harder

June 19 , 2021 . By Brook Kebede

Mortgage Banks' Admirable Gesture but Unattainable Strategy

June 12 , 2021 . By Abdulmenan Mohammed

Advocacy as a profession has a long history in Ethiopia. The first advocates were priests...

Cassation Makes History with Electoral Candidates, but Leaves Job Unfinished

June 12 , 2021 . By Yohannes Woldegebraiel

Advocacy as a profession has a long history in Ethiopia. The first advocates were priests...

Politicking in the Midst of Pandemic Could be Recipe for Election Disaster

June 5 , 2021 . By Joshua Castellino

Advocacy as a profession has a long history in Ethiopia. The first advocates were priests...

Federal Courts Proclamation Commendable When It's Not Ambiguous

June 5 , 2021 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

Advocacy as a profession has a long history in Ethiopia. The first advocates were priests...


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Editorial

Delisting Ethiopia from AGOA Unwise Move by the US

October 23 , 2021

Ethiopia`s civil war continues to rage, with no sign of respite or a prospect for a n...

Political Settlement the Way Forward to Overcome the Deadly Impass

October 16 , 2021

For many, the past rainy season was a critical moment in the life of the nation. One...

Governance Nitty-Gritty Requires Effort Beyond the Aesthetic

October 9 , 2021

Public offices have been having a field day in the past few years. From the Prime Min...

Ethiopianism: What Does It Demand, Endure, and Tolerate?

October 2 , 2021

Ethiopia`s Parliament will pick up a Prime Minister on Monday, October 4, 2021. The i...

Sunday With Eden

Friendships: The Good, the Bad, and the Mortifying

Friends help us make the most out of life, providing social and emotional support as...

When the Going Gets Tough, Flee

It is getting to a time when we start to consider conflict, death, displacement, homelessness, and hunger as normal aspects of being Ethiopi...

Life Matters

Ethiopia Disrupts, by the Skin of Its Teeth

Human societies have come a long way. Just think about it. It was only in 1888 that electricity in our ho...

Sugary Terms of Endearment

Wherever I go, I see a bunch of people sitting outside of a restaurant chattering loudly over tre siga(raw meat) or tibs (stir-fried beef) a...

Agenda

Shipping Crisis Adds Fuel to Inflationary Economy

October 23 , 2021 . By SAMUEL BOGALE and BERSABEH GEBRE

Driving in Addis Abeba is no easy task, and the same could be said about many places...

Banks Miss Deadline, Mergers Prove Unattainable

October 16 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

Residing in a country with no capital market, an organised marketplace for trading se...

The Rising Living Cost Amid Futile Crackdown on Businesses

October 9 , 2021 . By SAMUEL BOGALE

It did not take much time for Ageze Moges, 25, to get a job when he moved to Addis Ab...

Construction: The Unpropitious Outcome

October 17 , 2021

It was a cold morning, and the temperature was below 10 degrees celsius. Drivers were...

Gallery

Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

October 6 , 2021

Parliament Approves New Cabinet, Incorporates Opposition Leaders Lawmakers have approved today the nominations of 22 ministers, including three opposition leaders. Two MPs have voted against, while 12 abstained...

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Commentaries

Ethiopia's Path to Middle-income Status Paved by the AfCFTA

Ethiopia is at a pivotal moment in its history. Its future path is not only vital for...

The Case Against Economic Sanctions

Earlier this month, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan accused Russia of using energy as a political weapon. 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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A TAXING TIME!

October 23 , 2021

Beverage companies and commercial banks dominated last week's event held at the Grand Palace up at Arat Kilo. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD...

Banks Told to Re-invest Returns from Bonds on T-Bills

October 23 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

The central bank has instructed commercial banks to reinvest returns from bonds maturing next year and on...

Technology Park Price Tag Vexes Investors

Companies setting up data centres at the Addis Abeba ICT Park are embroiled in a dispute over lease payme...

IMF Unable to Project Ethiopia Growth for Volatility, Pending Debt Talks

October 23 , 2021 . By TAMRAT G. GIORGIS

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) left Ethiopia out of its economic growth projections for next year...

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