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Aug 20 , 2022

Regulating the RIDEing Industry; the Uncommon Call

Calling bureaucrats to police industries and discipline their actors could be as good as inviting trouble. The track record of regulators is often contrary to the intention. Regulations follow new ind...

Aug 14 , 2022

National Dialogue! What National Dialogue?

The call for lofty ideals such as national dialogue and consensus has been as old as Ethiopia's ingrate revolution. It may mean different things for various groups as successive regimes danced around...

Aug 6 , 2022

Finance to the Tiller! Plebiscite on the Land Question

Few initiatives by the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) have been publicised as aggressively as self-sufficiency in agriculture production. To be precise, it is about scaling up wheat...

Jul 30 , 2022

What Do New Banks Offer Their Older Cousins Don't?

Ethiopia's banking industry is not merely underdeveloped. It has historically regressed. Calls for the financial sector to open for international capital, technology, network and skill remain dwarfed...

Jul 23 , 2022

Tweaking Tax Policies No Silver Bullet to Fund Budget Deficit

The flip side of a government spending plan is financing. Behind the campaign promises, capital expenditures, public sector wage raises, and social welfare programmes is a dilemma. How can all of t...

Jul 17 , 2022

Durable Peace Indispensable for Negotiating External Debt Restructuring

Messrs Ahmed Shide and Eyob Tekalegn (PhD), minister and state minister for Finance, have lately been touting “progress” to restructure Ethiopia's sovereign debt. A summit in Paris that brought to...

Jul 9 , 2022

Fuel Subsidies Phasing Out. Floating the Birr Yet to Happen

Fuel shortages are a staple in Ethiopia. Severe policy miscalculation in the form of subsidies has led to underinvestment in the retail fuel business. It fed a thriving contraband trade in areas bor...

Jul 2 , 2022

Giving Peace a Chance. Long Overdue.

After nearly two years since the civil war broke out in northern Ethiopia, adversaries in this regrettably brutal conflict appear to have realised that there neither is victorious nor the vanquished....

Jun 25 , 2022

The Local Elections Everybody Forgets About

It is not the best of times to be in charge of governance in Ethiopia, whether at the federal or regional levels. The news of atrocities coming from around the country is horrific. Enervating insec...

Jun 18 , 2022

Central Bank Shoots Itself in the Feet. Again!

Some of Ethiopia's economic policymakers may take solace from realising that inflation is a global phenomenon. It would be unwise to disregard their reading on what transpires around the world. In the...

Jun 11 , 2022

What Agenda the Budget Bill Serves?

The stereotype many people have of parliamentarians is as clueless seat fillers who exist to rubber stamp legislative bills drafted by the powerful executive body of government. To defeat the stereoty...

Jun 4 , 2022

Ethiopia Sleeps at the Wheel in the Race for Regional Integration

It was an institution confident in its mission, capabilities and progress that was on display during the African Development Bank's (AfDB) most recent annual conference in Accra, Ghana. The weeklong e...

May 28 , 2022

Cheap Global Capital Era Over. Time to Reimagine Infrastructure Financing

There seem to be all types of wars these days. Civil wars, from Ethiopia to Myanmar; inter-state wars and geopolitical apprehensions, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to China's growing tension wi...

May 21 , 2022

Capital Market Does Little to Help Crowded Out Private Sector

There was a great deal of handshaking and patting each other on the back at the Hyatt Regency, near Mesqel Square, where the bigwigs of the new economic policymaking team gathered. Ahmed Shidie, Finan...

May 14 , 2022

Macroeconomic Council's Glaring Omissions

Diana Yohannes is one of those actively engaging in social media platforms with her Twitter account @Shai-buna. She is enthusiastic about faith related subjects. But her recent tweet poked a pertinent...

May 7 , 2022

Stagflation Here: Damn If You Do, Damn If You Don't

The Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA) recently proposed the formation of a macroeconomic board to stabilise the galloping prices of goods and services. It may have been a desperate call in an era t...

Columns

Commentaries | Sep 13,2025

In Climate Talks, Africa Mortgages Tomorrow Simply to Survive Today

At its launch in Nairobi two years ago, the Africa Climate Summit was billed as the forum...

Editorial | Sep 13 , 2025

Digital Payments Reshape Economy While Service Workers Lose Out

The way the Birr moves is changing, and with it, habits that have shaped daily life for ge...

Featured | Sep 14 , 2025 . By NAHOM AYELE

Student Tax ID Push Triggers Logjam

The yellow flush of Aday Abeba flowers has returned to Addis Abeba, heralding the arrival...

Agenda | Sep 13 , 2025 . By NAHOM AYELE and YITBAREK GETACHEW

Monument to National Ambition, Geopolitical Agency

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa's largest hydroelectric power project,...

Fortune News | Sep 15 , 2025 . By AMANUEL BEKELE