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Dec 29 , 2018.

... total savings and time deposits held by Ethiopia’s 17 commercial banks in Birr at the end of the past fiscal year, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia.


PUBLISHED ON Dec 29,2018 [ VOL 19 , NO 974]

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