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Another Round of Power Contracts for Chinese Contractors

Two Chinese companies, already working on nearly one billion dollar projects for the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), have been awarded ....

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Gov’t Export Fancies Fall Short in 1st Qtr

Experts are expecting an unhappy meeting tomorrow, Monday, November 2, 2009, when Girma Birru, minister of Trade and Industry, assembles them for an explanation as to why the government’s target of 495.6 million dollars had fallen short by such a wide margin, according to some of the ...

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Local State Company Networks 14 Oromia Bureaus

The Oromia Regional State has adopted a computerized networking system designed in line with 28-core processes that have been identified during its business process reengineering (BPR).

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Four months have gone since the ratification of a bill on GMOs, passed ...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

The task of ensuring popular will of any kind is a murky affair in emerging ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

The cost of minting the one cent coin is a fraction of the total minting costs of Ethiopia's coins. It is also less than the face value of the coin. But, in light of the fact that their usefulness to the general public has all but vanished, the Central Bank should consider their elimination from circulation, argues Alemseged Assefa, vice governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE).

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Opinion  

In an unusual turn of events, the Ministry of Trade and Industry revised the retail price of fuel for the second time in a month, following a spike in international oil prices. The second half of October 2009 has experienced a nine to 10pc increase in the retail fuel price. As international oil prices surge with a recovering economy, it is expected ...

   

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  Gossip  
 

The opposition camp may suffer from terminal disarray, but this time around the ruling party's camp is also in a chaotic state, for there is much uncertainty on the issue of succession, claims gossip.

   

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"The political process [in Ethiopia] stopped after 2005!"

Mesfin Woldemariam (Prof.), an opposition voice in Ethiopian politics who had a fallout with other leaders of his own party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), told the Amharic weekly, Addis Zemen, in an interview on October 28, 2009, when asked to comment on the political process in the country.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ECX: The Avant-Garde of this Business Generation
 

And it has a founder, an architect of the whole marketing system now in place, who is known to be articulate and assertive. Eleni Gabre-Madhin (PhD), chief executive officer (CEO) of ECX, has talked to Hilina Alemu, our editor-in-chief, about the four initiatives she is planning to introduce during this Ethiopian fiscal year. These initiatives will radically transform how markets function in Ethiopia,  .. Read More


A Race Too Tough to Win for Arsi’s Dreamers

 
 

Endowed with cool weather, high altitude, an organic though cheap diet and an unrelenting motivation, the Arsi Zone in Southeast Ethiopia is any long-distance running coach’s dreamland for nurturing talents of tomorrow... Read More

 
 
 
 
View Point

The main self-imposed conditionality that plagues the Ethiopian culture - and in turn the economy - is the lack of transparency. Unfortunately, this costs a lot in ...

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Life Matters
 

I have spoken once or twice about the state of the private press in Ethiopia.

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View From Arada
 

The extremities in weather bring the issue of climate change front and centre ..

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