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May 27 , 2023 . By Brook K. Abebe

Ethiopia's Internet Shutdowns Choke Its Economy, Freedom

Asilent war is being waged in Ethiopia, one that is suffocating the life out of the internet, subjugating the free flow of information, and choking the economy in the process. Ethiopia's onslaught on digital liberty is not unique, but it is becomi...

May 27 , 2023 . By Yehualashet Tamiru Tegegn

The Dream and the Dilemma of Africa's Single Currency

It is an ambitious plan that sees the African Union (AU) striving to create a single currency for the continent, marking a crucial part of its economic integration strategy. The initiative, crafted within the broader design of the Abuja Treaty of 1991, aspires to pool regional economic communities (RECs) or blocs into a unified African customs unio...


Apr 10 , 2023 . By Hruy Tsegaye Berehe

Democratising Prosperity: A Game-Changer for Bridging the Wealth Gap

For millennia, social inequality has stubbornly persisted as one of humanity's most pressing issues. This pervasive problem underlies many of society's critical challenges, including war, crime, disease, racism, and irrationality. The crux of the matter is not its ideological complexity but its impracticability. Regardless of the form of governm...


Sep 10 , 2022 . By Kevin Watkins

Schoolchildren Deserve Free Lunch

As children across Europe and the United States start a new school year, the world's governments are gearing up for their own big education moment. At the United Nations Transforming Education Summit, they have a chance to tackle a global learning crisis that has been amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and rising levels of child poverty and malnutr...




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The Irreversibility of Globalisation

Sep 10 , 2022      |      By Grzegorz W Kolodko      |      4801 Views

Just over three decades ago, the Cold War ended, and former Soviet-bloc countries began their transitions to market econ...

Big Payoff from US-China Climate Coordination

Sep 10 , 2022      |      By Jiang Lin      |      18584 Views

With provisions to cut US emissions by 40pc from 2005 levels by 2030, the Inflation Reduction Act has revived America's...

Education in the Age of Displacement

The ongoing flood of refugees from Afghanistan – now some 2.6 million strong – is sadly no isolated tragedy. Indeed, if all of today's 82.4 million refugees and forcibly displaced persons were gathered into a single state it would be the world's twentieth largest country by p...

Oct 9 , 2021      |      By Gordon Brown and Allan Goodman      |      22520 Views

ESG Will Not Help the Global South

The concept of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting standards has gone mainstream. Major Wall Street firms have adopted ESG standards as a guide to responsible investment, compelling the thousands of corporations in which they invest to do so as well. But is E...

Oct 9 , 2021      |      By Ricardo Hausmann      |      24429 Views

Financial Literacy: Good for Self, Even More Gainful for Nation

The world is changing and fast. Navigating around things has become complex without some understanding of the basic mechanism behind their operation. For instance, the proliferation of financial products and services and the emergence of new financial technologies (Fintech) has m...

Oct 2 , 2021      |      By Asegid Getachew      |      47022 Views

Modernising the Arsenal Against Malaria

Consider the humble mosquito. When compared to some of the world's most notorious and vicious predators, it might not look like much. And yet it has killed more people in history than any other creature. As a carrier for some of the world's deadliest diseases, including malaria,...

Oct 2 , 2021      |      By Abdourahmane Diallo      |      41984 Views

Education in the Age of Displacement

The ongoing flood of refugees from Afghanistan – now some 2.6 million strong – is sadly no isolated tragedy. Indeed, if all of today's 82.4 million refugees and forcibly displaced persons were gathered into a single state it would be the world's twentieth largest country by p...

Oct 9 , 2021      |      By Gordon Brown and Allan Goodman      |      22520 Views

ESG Will Not Help the Global South

The concept of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting standards has gone mainstream. Major Wall Street firms have adopted ESG standards as a guide to responsible investment, compelling the thousands of corporations in which they invest to do so as well. But is E...

Oct 9 , 2021      |      By Ricardo Hausmann      |      24429 Views

Financial Literacy: Good for Self, Even More Gainful for Nation

The world is changing and fast. Navigating around things has become complex without some understanding of the basic mechanism behind their operation. For instance, the proliferation of financial products and services and the emergence of new financial technologies (Fintech) has m...

Oct 2 , 2021      |      By Asegid Getachew      |      47022 Views

Modernising the Arsenal Against Malaria

Consider the humble mosquito. When compared to some of the world's most notorious and vicious predators, it might not look like much. And yet it has killed more people in history than any other creature. As a carrier for some of the world's deadliest diseases, including malaria,...

Oct 2 , 2021      |      By Abdourahmane Diallo      |      41984 Views

The Global North's Great Test

With low-income countries in Africa and elsewhere still imploring rich countries to stop stockpiling millions of unused COVID-19 vaccines, there are still real doubts as to whether the United States and Europe will honor the promise made at this year's G7 summit to vaccinate the...

Sep 26 , 2021      |      By Gordon Brown      |      43109 Views

El Salvador's Bitcoin Folly

El Salvador this month became the first country to adopt a cryptocurrency – in this case, Bitcoin – as legal tender. I say the first, because others might follow. But they should think twice, because the idea is highly dubious – and likely to be economically dangerous for d...

Sep 26 , 2021      |      By Jeffrey Frankel      |      41840 Views

Bad to Worse: Healthcare Cost Escalations Make the Country Sicker

Healthcare is expensive. Different factors fuel costs, including rising incidence of chronic conditions, lifestyle choices, increased aging population, liability concerns, obsolete technology and efforts by the healthcare providers to improve profitability. The matter is no diffe...

Sep 18 , 2021      |      By Halima Abate (MD)      |      42979 Views

Financing for Sustainable Global Food System

The global food system is unsustainable. While it is worth approximately eight trillion dollars annually, its negative impact is valued at roughly 12 trillion dollars. This is not the system's only contradiction. Around the world, food systems are both affected by climate change...

Sep 18 , 2021      |      By Simon Zadek      |      41877 Views

Greenwashing: the Worst Social Greenhouse Effect Killing the Planet

The world is reeling from the disastrous effects of climate change. Globally, an estimated 51 billion tonnes of greenhouse gasses are emitted into the atmosphere every year. Disasters such as floods, wildfires, tsunamis and famines have now become a common phenomenon. And not a s...

Sep 10 , 2021      |      By Asegid Getachew      |      42473 Views

How to Give Away a Million Dollars

It was recently announced that I am the winner of the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, an annual one million dollar award for “major achievements in advancing ideas that shape the world.” I am, of course, delighted that my work has been recognised as doing wha...

Sep 10 , 2021      |      By Peter Singer      |      41689 Views


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Backsliding on Maternal Mortality

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Editorial

Banks Ride the Waves of Change Grappling with Growth, Risk

May 27 , 2023

Tauted as a somnolent giant, Ethiopia's financial scene now stirs, roused by favourab...

An African Paradox: Mediating Foreign Wars While Ignoring Homegrown Turmoils

May 20 , 2023

The pungent irony wafting from Pretoria last week was hard to miss. Cyril Ramaphosa,...

Ethiopia's Geopolitical Dance in a Tumultuous World

May 13 , 2023

In March this year, Kamala Harris, the United States Vice President, visited Ghana, T...

Ethiopia's Labour Movement Confronts a New Era. Will It Thrive?

May 6 , 2023

The history of the Ethiopian labour movement dates back to the 1940s, marked by perio...

Sunday With Eden

The Road to Success is Always Under Construction

A while back, I was asked to cover as a substitute teacher for a friend at her primar...

Optimism Despite Prevalence of Poverty

I met a new mother out on the rainy street of Addis Abeba with her infant. She was s...

Life Matters

Debt Traps Destabilises Small Businesses

I was standing next to a lady at one of our neighbourhood shops. She was arguing with...

Distress of Digital Payment Penetration

I came across an older man who was complaining about the newly founded experience at...

Agenda

Moving Woes

May 27 , 2023 . By BEMNET TAFESSE

In the bustling streets of Addis Abeba, an undercurrent of unease shadows the necessary act of moving house. Siyoum Haile, a civil servant a...

Private Schools Price Accession, Repercussions of High Inflation

May 20 , 2023 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

On a rainy afternoon last week, Tesfalem Hailu, 48, was waiting by the door to pick his two children up f...

Sesame Farmers Confront War Consequences, Market Volatility, Trade Winds

May 13 , 2023 . By AKSAH ITALO

Asamirew Mekonnen, 49, has been a farmer all his life. He cultivated sesame on over half of his land in H...

Subdued Synergy Banes Infrastructures

May 6 , 2023 . By MUNIR SHEMSU

Yabets Zerihun drove a passenger from the Saris to the Laphto area around 3PM last week. As he passed...

Gallery

Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

Oct 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...

2020 in Posterity

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TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

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IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

Dec 14 , 2019

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

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Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

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Commentaries

A World of Debt

Recent headlines seem to augur a global debt crisis. The United States is teetering on the precipice of a self-inflicted default. Egypt,...

Growing Out of the Developing-Country Debt Crisis

The sovereign-debt crisis was high on the agenda at this year's Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the...

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 two...

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ZEMEN'S SKYWARD AMBITION

May 27 , 2023

In a triumph over the trials of the pandemic, a rising tide of construction costs and inflation, Zemen Bank has opened a stunning 32-storey...

Meqelle Struggles to Reclaim EFFORT's Control Amidst Post-War Saga

May 27 , 2023 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

Meqelle is in an animated bid to reclaim control of the management of companies under the Endowment Fund...

Addis Abeba Revamps Title Transfer Fees to Tackle Outdated Valuations

May 29 , 2023

Officials at the Addis Abeba City Administration have recently changed the title transfer fees following...

Slaughtered Husbandry Sector Poised for Reform under New Policy

May 27 , 2023 . By MUNIR SHEMSU

The absence of technological equipment to control the contraband trade near national borders and low-qual...