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Domestic Market Envisioned to be in the Foreign Investments

Dec 31 , 2022      |      By Tsegaye Yilma (PhD)      |      579 Views

Washington, DC, hosted the long-awaited and hyped US-Africa summit, with hundreds of dignitaries flooding the city. According to the US government, the objective of the three-day summit was to strengthen relati...

Confronting the Crisis while Reckoning with the War

Dec 31 , 2022      |      By Senay Lemma      |      443 Views

Shortly after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office, political and economic policy reforms started to roll out. Strategies have been developed to appear as policies, plans, and programs that promise to improve...

All Progress Local, If Seen Granularly

Until the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity was making great strides in extending lives and increasing economic prosperity. It is critical that we return to that trajectory as the global economy recovers. New research, which examines progress at a granular level, can help us get there...

Dec 24 , 2022      |      By Chris Bradley and Marc Canal Noguer      |      919 Views

Beautifying Cities While Neglecting Residents' Well-Being

Despite the low urbanisation level and sporadic growth, the federal government has recently made enormous efforts to beautify the urban public space. These projects stir concerns about spatial inequalities, power monopolies and priority dilemmas in a metropolis that already strug...

Dec 24 , 2022      |      By Robel Mulat      |      639 Views

Tooling Social Franchising to Optimise Development

Originating in the United States, franchising has become one of the world's most popular expansion methods and distribution strategies today. It is an agreement between two entities. A replication of a proven business formula, the relationship between the franchisor and the franc...

Dec 17 , 2022      |      By Halima Abate (MD)      |      878 Views

Africa's Public Schools Plights

The worldwide pandemic has laid bare the vast, systemic inequalities of access and opportunity in education systems. While school closures and the shift to distance learning have taken a heavy toll on hundreds of millions of schoolchildren, underfunded public schools in Africa ha...

Dec 17 , 2022      |      By Palesa Libe      |      527 Views

All Progress Local, If Seen Granularly

Until the COVID-19 pandemic, humanity was making great strides in extending lives and increasing economic prosperity. It is critical that we return to that trajectory as the global economy recovers. New research, which examines progress at a granular level, can help us get there...

Dec 24 , 2022      |      By Chris Bradley and Marc Canal Noguer      |      919 Views

Beautifying Cities While Neglecting Residents' Well-Being

Despite the low urbanisation level and sporadic growth, the federal government has recently made enormous efforts to beautify the urban public space. These projects stir concerns about spatial inequalities, power monopolies and priority dilemmas in a metropolis that already strug...

Dec 24 , 2022      |      By Robel Mulat      |      639 Views

Tooling Social Franchising to Optimise Development

Originating in the United States, franchising has become one of the world's most popular expansion methods and distribution strategies today. It is an agreement between two entities. A replication of a proven business formula, the relationship between the franchisor and the franc...

Dec 17 , 2022      |      By Halima Abate (MD)      |      878 Views

Africa's Public Schools Plights

The worldwide pandemic has laid bare the vast, systemic inequalities of access and opportunity in education systems. While school closures and the shift to distance learning have taken a heavy toll on hundreds of millions of schoolchildren, underfunded public schools in Africa ha...

Dec 17 , 2022      |      By Palesa Libe      |      527 Views

The Global Economy's Double Transformation

The world's advanced economies are amid dual structural transformations that will change every aspect of our lives, from how we work and do business to how we regulate markets. The most notable of these transformations is digitalization, which has been so ubiquitous over the p...

Dec 10 , 2022      |      By Diane Coyle      |      727 Views

Financing Worries Overshadow Post War Recovery Enthusiasm

The civil war in the north has caused considerable losses in human lives, damaged economic and social infrastructure and dislocated many people. The war has also meant the diversion of resources away from development and social spending into war financing. The impact is nothing b...

Dec 10 , 2022      |      By Shewangezaw Seyoum      |      539 Views

Addis Abeba's Tech-Science Museum Inspires Africa for Smart Living

With the recent inauguration of the science museum in the capital, Ethiopians are showing their aspiration for scientific and technological development in the digital era. The Science & Technology Museum (STM) can be essential in directing the younger generations residing in...

Dec 4 , 2022      |      By Fisseha Mekuria (PhD)      |      1125 Views

Keeping the Momentum Amidst Self Sufficiency Paradox

For decades, Ethiopia has been in a vicious spiral of challenges that test food security, such as drought, internal conflicts, and an economy in upheaval. In the late 1990s, I remembered a BBC news story about Ethiopia exporting maize to Kenya, which surprised the world's dono...

Dec 4 , 2022      |      By Fanta Tadesse      |      846 Views

World Cup Dimensions to Inspire the Economy

For most of my professional career, I explored the links between the beautiful game and the global economy. At Goldman Sachs and, before that, at the Swiss Bank Corporation, I indulged my dual obsessions by presiding over special one-off publications for each World Cup from 1994...

Nov 26 , 2022      |      By Jim O’Neill      |      942 Views

Global Knowledge Leads to Competitive Capacity

The future is not ahead of us; it has already ensued. We stand on a cliff, stepping into a new era of enormous change and uncertainty characterised by a borderless interconnected global economy. It is hard to be indifferent to a change at the world's edge. The walls have crumbled...

Nov 26 , 2022      |      By ASSEGED GEBRMEDIHN      |      628 Views


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Editorial

Parched Addis Struggles to Provide Water to Booming Population

Mar 25 , 2023

At a crossroads, Addis Abeba finds itself on the precipice of monumental transformati...

Confronting the Axis of Threat: Diminished Assets, Inflation, and Trade Imbalance

Mar 18 , 2023

Ethiopia's economy once hailed as a paragon of growth and development, now faces a co...

Is Ethiopia Insolvent? Or Just Illiquid?

Mar 11 , 2023

Ethiopia is rapidly emerging as one of China's top African debtors, second only to An...

Nature May Cause Drought; Famine Results from Political Failure

Mar 4 , 2023

Once again, Ethiopia has claimed international attention in the past few weeks for re...

Sunday With Eden

Customs Office Overhaul Cures Business Ails

Last week there was an exhibition organized by the Addis Abeba University Institute o...

Healing Societal Wounds through Clemency

I met Solomon Desta a couple of years ago. He lives and works in a religious institu...

Life Matters

The Reality of Home Away From Home

A few months ago, homelessness became of families with kids, the elderly and people with disability whose homes were demolished while they w...

A Week without Our Three-wheeled Allies

A comedian made a joke about how citizens' wishes are not granted but rather what government thinks is ou...

Agenda

Waste Tower: What's Next?

Mar 25 , 2023 . By AKSAH ITALO

On a cloudy morning one of the days last week, Genet Gebre was immersed in a pile of dirt searching for metal scrapes at the top of the Kosh...

Rainy City Calls for Running Water

Mar 18 , 2023 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

Water is a vital utility for Dawit Assefa, a contractor and father of two who lives on the second floor of a condominium building. The natur...

Fed Broadens Tax Base Despite Mounting Inflation

Mar 11 , 2023 . By MUNIR SHEMSU

A series of discussion panels were summoned a couple of weeks ago at the Ministry of Finance headquarter...

Lost in Transportation: Teff Prices Spike Up

Mar 4 , 2023 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

Injera is a luxury food item for Birtukan Mengesha, a waitress at Addis Abeba University student's lounge...

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Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

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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...

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Commentaries

Central Banks Juggling Price, Financial Stability Amid Market Turmoil

When market liquidity or funding liquidity crisis occurs at a moment when inflation i...

Ethiopia's Capital Market Success Hinges on Empowering Retail Investors

Ethiopia is on the cusp of a new era in its financial landscape. The Ethiopian Parlia...

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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Debt Vulnerability Looms as IMF Representatives Land in Addis Abeba

Mar 25 , 2023 . By TAMRAT G. GIORGIS

As Ethiopia grapples with its escalating external debt, the arrival of an Internation...

Insurance Industry Pledges 75m Br Amid Misgivings Over Shareholders` Rights

Mar 25 , 2023 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

The Ethiopian insurance industry has pledged to donate 75 million Br to support a ser...

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Mar 25 , 2023 . By MUNIR SHEMSU

As Ethiopia emerges from one of the deadliest conflicts in recent history, the countr...

Contractors Call for International Bid Threshold Adjustment

Mar 25 , 2023 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

Local contractors plea for the international bid price threshold to be raised as the...