http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Get the Latest Business News from Ethiopia- The Largest English Weekly in the Nation! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The urban landholding system has undergone many changes over the last hundred years. The Derg Regime brought the most drastic change, putting all land in the hands of the government, but the EPRDF also modified the way the government handled land and parcelled it out. Unfortunately for the capital, the land lease system is rife with problems, with both investors and the government suffering financial loss due to mismanagement, as a recent government taskforce discovered, writes ZEKARIAS HADDUSH, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER. http://www.addisfortune.com/Agenda.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300It was not the first time for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s party to have winning elections or for it to claim victory in an electoral process whose quality and sincerity his opponents questioned. There have been three such moments in the past; one being the deadliest in 2005. http://www.addisfortune.com/fortune_editors_note.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300The biggest financial nightmare looming over the world economy is the insolvency of a large international bank. Be it due to a sovereign default or large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility. http://www.addisfortune.com/opinion.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300There is an ongoing debate among global policymakers about when and how fast to exit from the strong monetary and fiscal stimulus that prevented the Great Recession of 2008/09 from turning into a new Great Depression. Germany and the European Central Bank (ECB) are pushing aggressively for early fiscal austerity. The United States is worried about the risks of excessively early fiscal consolidation, observes Nouriel Roubini, a professor of Economics at New York University, in this commentary provided to Fortune by Project Syndicate. http://www.addisfortune.com/ecconomic_commentary.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300There are times, few and far between, that Ethiopian Television (ETV) is the station of choice for people with access to other media outlets. The station is not reputed to broadcast clear and unbiased news reports, and often the investigative and feature style pieces that are televised are not what one would expect from a public broadcasting station, no matter what whirlpool of geopolitics it may find itself in. http://www.addisfortune.com/lifematters.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300The month of May 2010 led yet to another extraordinary episode in Ethiopia, which was the total victory of the incumbent party, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), in the 2010 parliamentary and regional elections. By controlling almost all parliamentary seats, the governing party inked another chapter in the history of this poor nation. http://www.addisfortune.com/Viewpoint.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300The World Cup in South Africa has truly been a unifying force for the whole continent. Every African can take pride in the beautiful stadiums as well as the triumphs of African teams such as Ghana in their victory over Serbia. But there comes a time when each country must look inward and critically evaluate not only the state of football but infrastructure and other measures of development that they are responsible for. http://www.addisfortune.com/View_From_Arada.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Revolutionary Democrats seem to have overcome their collective insecurity of losing an election. It was clear that they did not want to leave anything to chance. This was despite the overwhelming position their party had in the run-up to the election, a position that finally annihilated and humiliated their electoral challangers, as one of their critics described it. http://www.MyWebSite.com/item.htmlMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0300