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, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The implementation of a 150pc export tariff on crusted leather, two weeks ago, is generating mixed feelings among industry stakeholders. It is stabilising the supply of hides and skins to factories, but they are struggling to prepare themselves to be able to produce enough value-added products to make up for the huge loss in revenue resulting from the uncompetitive international prices of Ethiopian crusted leather forced by the tariff, writes EDEN SAHLE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER. http://www.addisfortune.com/Agenda.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300Even after 125 years, structural mix remains a typical feature of Addis Abeba. Urban land use is still dominated with combined utilisation that promotes hodgepodge development rather than specialised zoning. It is one feature that is always maintained through the accelerating dynamics of the city. http://www.addisfortune.com/fortune_editors_note.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300Thinking about how much my future is defined by my past upsets me. It is as if life operates through an accrual accounting system where a withdrawal at an early age is reckoned as a debit in later life. http://www.addisfortune.com/opinion.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300Residents of Addis Abeba routinely complain about the lack of basic services that one would expect from a major urban metropolis. The city has consumed millions, if not billions, of Birr in infrastructure development since the time of the last declared emperor. Much to the dismay of its residents, however, it continues to suffer from irregularities and, sometimes, a total lack of basic services such as the provision of potable water, electricity, telecommunications, and garbage collection, in much the same way as and sometimes even worse than what used to be decades ago. http://www.addisfortune.com/ecconomic_commentary.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300As an African, this writer’s dream for the next decade is to see the continent producing and selling chocolate to 300 million Chinese, instead of exporting raw commodities like cocoa. Several weeks ago, at the China-Africa Symposium in Xiamen, China, the writer tested this vision on the audience, and the 2,000-plus delegates joined in resounding applause. Business and government leaders are evidently ready to see Africa introduce structural change aimed at creating manufacturing-based national economies. http://www.addisfortune.com/Viewpoint.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300Metropolitan dynamics have changed the landmarks of city so frequently that only history can remember them after their time. That does not work in the case of Piazza. Despite the swift tides of urbanisation, it still refuses to be sidelined, and its remnants rightly show. http://www.addisfortune.com/View_From_Arada.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300In one of his stern warnings to some of the leaders of the opposition parties, the Prime Minister once said that his administration has “eyes and ears.” Taking that at face value, such an administration should have paid notice to the state of paralysis that the private sector finds itself in today, gossip observes. Exhausted from a series of shock therapies in policy prescriptions, many members of the private sector are timid and subdued, if not feeble. http://www.addisfortune.com/fine_line.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300Out and Abouthttp://www.addisfortune.com/Out_and_About.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0300