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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...

Apr 30 , 2022

War Cost Emaciates Agricultural Productivity. Stop the War!

There is no ambiguity in the UNDP's assessment of Ethiopia's economic performance and prospects. A quarterly economic profile on Ethiopia, released in March this year, portrays a rather dismal picture...

Apr 22 , 2022

The Sharing Economy Needs Less Policing, More Support

Most African countries top the list when ranked on the prevalence of conflict, food insecurity, poverty or lack of essential services. Ethiopia is no exception to this. On the contrary, those same cou...

Apr 16 , 2022

More Farmlands, Less Battlefields in Times of 'Hunger Pandemic'

Earlier this year, a pandemic that ravaged the world was finally subsiding, and demand for consumer goods increased. Some dared to theorise that countries were entering the 'roaring twenties' when sev...

Apr 9 , 2022

The Battle for Peace with Few Allies, No Time!

The heartbreak from Ethiopia's civil war has not abated. Not even close. A few months shy of its second year, the war has induced a new chapter in almost three decades of relative peace and economic g...

Apr 8 , 2022

Choosing the Lesser Evil in Macroeconomic Course Correction

By the government's own admission, the macroeconomic reality for Ethiopia is distressing. Consumers battered by inflation find the answer to their bind in life in the first-quarter report recently rel...

Mar 26 , 2022

Rule by Fiat Remains Yinager Dessie's Unceremonious Legacy

There has rarely been a time when the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) is in the spotlight, at least for those that pay close attention to the macroeconomy, as it is lately. The prices of goods and ser...

Mar 19 , 2022

New World Order on the Ascent. Ethiopia Better Buckle Up!

A crisis that should be familiar to Ethiopians is taking place in the eastern part of Europe. A “military operation” that was supposed to take a few days has been grinding and escalating into a di...

Mar 12 , 2022

Treasury Bill Financing with Reckless Abandon. Not Wise!

Nassim Talib, the author of an acclaimed book titled "The Black Swan", recently tweeted about his observation made years ago: "Economists didn't get anything right." Those in the economics discipline...

Mar 5 , 2022

Ukraine War Spells Bad for Ethiopia's Balance of Payments

This decade has not started well for the global community. A once-in-a-century pandemic, COVID-19, inaugurated it and the economic crisis it wrought around the world. Now, a war has come to Europe's d...

Feb 26 , 2022

GERD Remains a Monument for Cooperation, Solidarity!

A little over a decade ago next April, Meles Zenawi gave one of his indelible speeches from the little known valley of Guba in the Benishangul Gumuz Regional State. His administration connived with an...

Feb 19 , 2022

Responding to Ethiopia’s Macroeconomic Achilles' Heel

It must have been exasperating for the policy kingpins in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) Administration to see the International Monetary Fund (IMF) skip Ethiopia - perhaps for the first time - from...

Feb 12 , 2022

Why the Quest for Sufferable Peace Remains Illusive

There is not much news as grim as those concerning Ethiopia's political situation in degeneration. If there was any hope of reform back in 2018, where views had appeared to compete in the marketplace...


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