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, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The national sugar shortage seen over the past two weeks has alarmed residents of the city. While the government has started importing sugar to cover the production deficit and meet the high demand, retailers have either stopped or cut down on selling sugar, compounding the problem of obtaining it, writes EDEN SAHLE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER. http://www.addisfortune.com/Agenda.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300Fundamental economics states that scarcity leads to efficiency. Contemporary management, on the other hand, identifies integration as the bedrock of efficiency. The Revolutionary Democrats seem to have understood both well, as can be seen from their maritime transport strategy. http://www.addisfortune.com/fortune_editors_note.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300It is impossible for anyone to predict bubbles accurately. Bubbles are social epidemics fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion. A bubble forms when the contagion rate for ideas that support a bubble goes up. http://www.addisfortune.com/opinion.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300Inflation was once described as “taxation without legislation,” by Milton Freedman, the Nobel laureate and father of monetary economics. http://www.addisfortune.com/ecconomic_commentary.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300In the coming decade the extraction of oil, gas, and mineral ores will constitute the most important economic opportunity in Africa’s history by far. Africa is the last frontier for the discovery of resources, having been relatively neglected by mining and other resource extraction companies for a long time, owing to difficult political conditions. However, rising commodity prices are overcoming reluctance and prospecting is generating a multitude of new discoveries. http://www.addisfortune.com/Viewpoint.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300After taking a break to undergo medical treatment, Fortune’s longest contributing columnist returns from Belgium, convinced that the services provided by healthcare institutions in Addis Abeba leave much to be desired. http://www.addisfortune.com/View_From_Arada.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300Girma Birru, now special envoy of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the United States, may no longer be a popular figure within the OPDO during a meeting the rank and file had a few weeks ago in Adama Town (Nazareth), gossip claimed. http://www.addisfortune.com/fine_line.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300Out and Abouthttp://www.addisfortune.com/Out_and_About.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0300