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IMF Closes Shop in Ethiopia

Forced to bridge 400 million dollars in budget deficit, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is closing shop in 30 countries across the world, including in Addis Abeba,  some sources disclosed.

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Gov’t to Import 1.5m Quintals of Sugar

The federal government, through the Ethiopian Sugar Development Agency (ESDA), is to import 1.5 million quintals of sugar in a bid to stabilise the sugar market.

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Office of Prime Minister Rejects Mayor Brehane’s Directive

The Office of the Prime Minister has called off a directive issued by Brehane Deressa, the Mayor of Addis Abeba, regarding the treatment of city officials who have been released on bail after being charged with corruption.

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Derba East Africa Coal Mining Company on the Edge of Extracting Coal

Derba East Coal Mining Plc, a joint venture of Debra MIDROC and East Africa Holdings, has finally acquired legal status and registered at the Public Notary Office in December 2008.

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Agenda    

A recent fire in the Arada District around the Sidist Kilo area has torn up the lives..

 
   

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Editor's Note  

To those who followed the debate in Parliament earlier last week, on the ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Monetary expansion generally makes it easier to borrow, and lowers the costs of doing so, throughout the economy. It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation, argues Jeffery Sachs, Professor of Economics at Colombia University.

   

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THE YEAR IN BRIEF

The year 2007 brought in the new Ethiopian Millennium and an accompanying tide of mixed economic indicators for the business community. With all the hype generated by the Millennium Secretariat Office's public relations campaign, Ethiopia's image as a unique country with deeply embedded traditions intermingled with its portrayal as an investment environment that .... 2007 In Brief

 
VERBATIM    
 

Honorable Ato Lidetu, from EUDP-Medhin said that they proposed solutions on this issue in the last two years . . . if they did that, we congratulate them.

 Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s rebuttal to Lidetu Ayalew’s attempt to capitalize on the ruling party’s admittance to Parliament on Tuesday, March 11, that cost of living has become a major source of discontent in the economy.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INTERVIEW-Djibouti’s President, Ismail Omar Guelleh
 

I expect justice to be rendered, by transferring to us the prosecution briefs of the “Borrel Case”. When great powers sign a treaty with small countries, they have this appalling tendency of forgetting... Read More

ANALYSIS-Change in the Air

 

As the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) becomes reality, ELENI ZAUDE GABRE-MADHIN (PhD), chief of party for the Exchange Project, reflects on what it takes to build an exchange and where her efforts are in the development of Ethiopia’s first of.... Read More

 
 
View Point

Last week was a busy time for members of Ethiopia's law enforcement branches. A taskforce compromised of people from the Federal Police, the National Bank of Ethiopia and the National Security...

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Life Matters
 

I was driving on the one semblance of a highway that is available to us, when I got stuck behind a water truck.

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View From Arada
 

J.J. Bolanz came to Addis Abeba and established a Kindergarden for Children in collaboration with some Ethiopians.

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