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Is the High Cost of Digital Convenience Eroding Cognitive Abilities?

May 25 , 2024      |      By Tesfahun Leta      |      1119 Views

Along with some colleagues, our company assigned me a few weeks ago as an invigilator for a regional recruitment assignment at a prominent public university outside of Addis Abeba. The University auditorium was...

What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do

May 18 , 2024      |      By Keun Lee      |      1292 Views

I recently discussed industrial policy at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF has historically been a sharp c...

Why 'Billions to Trillions' Won't Solve the Climate Crisis, Development Goals

The international development sector has become fixated on calculating financing gaps. Hardly a day goes by without new estimates of the funds low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) need to meet their climate targets and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals...

May 18 , 2024      |      By Jayati Ghosh      |      817 Views

Fertilisers Will Not Fix Africa's Food Crisis

The world is confronting an unprecedented food crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's war against Ukraine, and worsening climate conditions. However, the problem is most acute in Africa, where 61pc of the population faced moderate or severe food insecurity in 202...

May 11 , 2024      |      By Silke Bollmohr and Harun Warui      |      11969 Views

What Mission-Driven Government Means

The COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and wars have alerted governments to the realities of what it takes to tackle massive crises. In extraordinary times, policymakers often rediscover their capacity for bold decision-making. The rapid speed of COVID-19 vaccine development and deplo...

May 11 , 2024      |      By Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel      |      859 Views

History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its threat to good jobs would seem to be an entirely new problem. But we can find useful ideas about how to respond in the work of David Ricardo, a founder of modern economics who observed the British Industrial Revolution firsthand. The evolution...

May 2 , 2024      |      By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson      |      1303 Views

Why 'Billions to Trillions' Won't Solve the Climate Crisis, Development Goals

The international development sector has become fixated on calculating financing gaps. Hardly a day goes by without new estimates of the funds low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) need to meet their climate targets and achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals...

May 18 , 2024      |      By Jayati Ghosh      |      817 Views

Fertilisers Will Not Fix Africa's Food Crisis

The world is confronting an unprecedented food crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's war against Ukraine, and worsening climate conditions. However, the problem is most acute in Africa, where 61pc of the population faced moderate or severe food insecurity in 202...

May 11 , 2024      |      By Silke Bollmohr and Harun Warui      |      11969 Views

What Mission-Driven Government Means

The COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, and wars have alerted governments to the realities of what it takes to tackle massive crises. In extraordinary times, policymakers often rediscover their capacity for bold decision-making. The rapid speed of COVID-19 vaccine development and deplo...

May 11 , 2024      |      By Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel      |      859 Views

History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its threat to good jobs would seem to be an entirely new problem. But we can find useful ideas about how to respond in the work of David Ricardo, a founder of modern economics who observed the British Industrial Revolution firsthand. The evolution...

May 2 , 2024      |      By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson      |      1303 Views

How to Rebuild Trust in Public Institutions

As voters worldwide head to the polls this year, many have lost trust in politicians and even in democracy itself. For governments, addressing public disillusionment has become an urgent priority. How can they restore confidence in representative institutions and thus bolster...

May 3 , 2024      |      By Eleanor Carter and Carolyn J Heinrich      |      1251 Views

The High Cost of Low Protection for Migrants on the Margin

In the East and Horn of Africa, a region including 18 countries, migration patterns are profoundly influenced by challenges ranging from armed conflicts and political instability to environmental degradation, climate change, and scarce economic opportunities. This geographic expa...

Apr 28 , 2024      |      By Yonas Zewdie      |      3212 Views

Ethiopia Bets Big on Foreign Capital. Will Local Businesses Pay the Price?

The recent directive unveiled by the Ethiopian Investment Board (EIB) marks a considerable shift in policy by the federal government. Its timing and scope opened several previously restricted sectors to foreign investors, with foreboding implications for domestic companies and co...

Apr 28 , 2024      |      By Abiy Getachew      |      4165 Views

The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the developing world has faced growing public-sector debt vulnerabilities. Interest-rate hikes and limited access to international capital markets have only exacerbated the problem – so much so that even solvent countries are now wrestl...

Apr 20 , 2024      |      By José Antonio Ocamp      |      1293 Views

Borderless Care Lucrative Rise and Its Global Footprint

The rise of medical tourism, a phenomenon where consumers travel beyond their national borders to seek medical treatments, is reshaping the global healthcare industry. Rooted in the liberalisation policies of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Serv...

Apr 20 , 2024      |      By Halima Abate (MD)      |      4122 Views

Is the World Ready for AI Creative Destruction?

The ancient Chinese concept of "yin and yang" attests to humans' tendency to see patterns of interlocked opposites in the world around us, a predilection that has lent itself to various theories of natural cycles in social and economic phenomena. Just as the great medieval Arab p...

Apr 13 , 2024      |      By Daron Acemoglu      |      3162 Views


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Editorial

Officials Bank on Student Service to Patch a Fractured Country

Apr 13 , 2025

The federal government will soon require one year of national service from university...

Cheap Power Lures Bitcoin Miners. But Millions Wait for a Lightbulb Moment

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Last week, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group...

Media Council's Edging to Accreditation a Deceitful Drift

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When the private satellite channel, Ethiopian Broadcasting Service (EBS), aired an em...

Preventing War Far Cheaper Than Paying Its Deadly Price

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Getachew Redda, head of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration (TIRA), at least u...

Sunday With Eden

Grace Over Grind

Over the weekend, I attended a women's gathering that quietly reshaped how I think about balance, ambition, motherhood, and the kind of life...

Breaking Bread, Sharing Hearts

Almost a year ago, my husband and I sat in the living room of a dear friend who had just suffered an unimaginable loss. She had lost a very...

Life Matters

The Awkward Art of Saying Hello

Living side by side with others – sharing walls, staircases, even the same unreliable electricity – should make greetings feel natural....

Showers Are Optional, Guilt Is Not

It's funny how life throws your pre-baby notions right out the window. I vividly remember joking with a friend, back in my carefree days, ab...

Agenda

Trenches of Tax Turmoil

Apr 13 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Key Takeaways: Merkato's bustling trade shows signs of a slowdown, manifesting deeper economic anxieties affecting merchants and shop...

FLUSHED WITH TROUBLE

Apr 6 , 2025 . By AKSAH ITALO

Key Takeaways Addis Abeba residents face sudden and severe fines for waste disposal violations, demonstrating the gap between rapid urb...

CHASED FOR A LIVING

Mar 30 , 2025 . By YITBAREK GETACHEW

At dusk, Haile Garment Square in the southern outskirts of Addis Abeba transforms from a quiet street into a lively market. Vendors quickly...

"No Child Should Die Waiting"

Mar 23 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Five neatly arranged children's beds lie in a small, dimly lit room inside Tikur Anbesa Teaching Hospital, on Yared St. Each was occupied by...

Gallery

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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IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

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Commentaries

A Trade War Hits the Flower Aisle. Ethiopia Feels the Thorns

President Donald Trump's decision to impose new tariffs has prompted U.S. customs age...

Start-Up Fever Threatens to Undermine the Public Sector's Core Mission

Around the world, governments are trying to reinvent themselves in the image of a bus...

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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MERCATO TAXED TO SILENCE

Apr 13 , 2025

Some parts of Merkato have fallen uncharacteristically silent, contrary to its typical bustle of traders, shoppers, and hawkers vying for bu...

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Apr 13 , 2025 . By AKSAH ITALO

Takeaways: Retroactive VAT enforcement on soybean cake has become a tax flashpoint, with liabilit...

Property Owners on Bole Road Face Uncertainty Amid Oromia Gov't Office Expansion

Apr 13 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

A redevelopment initiative along Africa Avenue (Bole Road) has set off alarm bells for property owners wh...

Labour Ministry Ambitions Stumble as Overseas Jobs Cause Costly Traps

Apr 13 , 2025 . By AKSAH ITALO

Key Takeaways Federal legislators called for reforms and increased enforcement to protect Ethiopian...