Mar 18 , 2023
Q: Unilever was among the top 20 taxpayers a few years ago. However, it did not even reach the top 40 last year. Why? Stefan Cloete: We paid a record level of taxes last year - 85pc more than in 2...
Mar 4 , 2023
Q: When it was established over 77 years ago, the United Nations was created to stop wars. Look at the world today; it is full of violent conflicts from Ukraine to Ethiopia. Do you find it frustrating...
Jan 24 , 2023
Project Syndicate (PS): You have often pointed out that inflation has been exacerbated by trade protectionism, which weakens the market competition that induces firms to keep prices low, and by immigr...
Jan 7 , 2023
Question: Climate change is a complex problem, but maybe there is a simple solution. What might that look like? Nnimmo Bassey: Simple solutions are avoided in today's world because they do not supp...
Oct 30 , 2022
Project Syndicate: From the start of your recent book, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism - you argue that changing capitalism will require us to overhaul “how government is st...
Oct 15 , 2022
What makes the lab innovative? And a laboratory? Who selected the advisory board, and how can companies become eligible to get support from the lab? Our Managing Editor, Tamrat G. Giorgis, sat with Gi...
Sep 10 , 2022
Fortune: Which holiday do you like most? Sayat: I love all holidays. There is none to pick out. The thing I love about holidays is, on that specific day, you do not see anyone starved or teary. I l...
Apr 22 , 2022
Fortune: - The remittance inflow to Ethiopia is around three, four billion dollars? This is against a population of a 100 million, and an annual GDP of 100 billion dollars. How do you see this in comp...
Feb 12 , 2022
For the first time in two years, an African Union summit was held in Addis Abeba earlier this month. On the agenda were COVID-19, political instability and debt sustainability. One of the attendants w...
Jan 22 , 2022
Fortune: Your company alludes to the African market's unique set-up from other parts of the world. Why is that? Is it a combination of being unbanked and a lack of monthly subscription models? Or is i...
Dec 11 , 2021
Fortune: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a detrimental impact on African economies. What is a sustainable solution for Africa economy-wise, or is the continent stuck with it for the next few years consi...
Nov 6 , 2021
Fortune: How is your project in Ethiopia and what has been the biggest challenge? Juliana Hosken Wernek: Ethiopia is a very important country for us. We are happy to be doing business here. It is g...
Oct 9 , 2021
The Legatum Institute, a London-based think-tank, recently released an economic case study of Ethiopia, titled, "Pathway to Prosperity." The report focuses on the economic planning and growth outcomes...
Dec 12 , 2020
Dietrich Rogge, founder and CEO of Rockstone, a German-based real estate developer and investment company, did not want an Anglo-Saxon name for the project it embarked on in Ethiopia. A rare European...
Aug 10 , 2019
Hardly anyone matches the intellectual repository and experience of constitution making in Ethiopia as Fasil Nahum (PhD). He was involved in the drafting of three constitutions since the Imperial days...
Feb 15 , 2020
The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently published its flagship annual report, the African Economic Outlook 2020, in time for the African Union Summit of Heads of State, where it testified to the...
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