Jobs for youngsters

How Addis City Administration shows the way The Addis Ababa City Administration recently announced its plan to provide jobs for 5,000 college graduates in the city, an unprecedented move to alleviate the... Read more »

Forest products’ import and export balance

Though the forest sector has been facing critical threat from human activities, it has a potential to play crucial role in reinforcing the economy. While still more than 80 percent of the... Read more »

Africa needs proactive and strategic approach for industrialization development

On November 20th, we celebrated Africa Industrialization Day, which was estab­lished in 1990, and is the day when a large number of African governments and orga­nizations gathered to examine various dif­ferent ways... Read more »

Facilitating credit to youth towards creating more job opportunities

The youth are successors of the country. So, to unleash their potentials facilitating education and training is essential. Side by side with this, creating job opportunities are essential. Considering this, since 2009,... Read more »

Realizing nutrition security through modern agriculture

Though there is a potential for surplus yields the country’s agriculture proves sluggish remaining still subsistence. Traditionally it plays a crucial role towards supplying food to the market and inputs to food... Read more »

Mitigating global warming: Can China be standard-bearer?

Since the industrialization era in 1850, the western countries had been aggressively exploiting carbon-based energy such as oil and coal for their development. As it was their initial phase to transform their... Read more »

Prolonging the life span of hydropower dams

Seen in light of Ethiopia’s available water resources and potential,its resources are still very little exploited. Surface and underground waters can be used both for hydropower generation and irrigation. To translate the... Read more »

National Watershed and Agroforestry Multi-Stakeholder Platform (NWAMP)

Natural resources development is a viable path for Green Economy. Directly or indirectly, the growth of a nation is strongly dependent on the success of land management interventions. Knowingly or unknowingly, man... Read more »

Tourism: An abundant resource yet untappe

Ethiopia is endowed with numerous tourism resources which have the potential to boost the economy. Cultural heritages such as obelisks, monuments, palaces, religious sites as well as natural resources, among others, rivers,... Read more »

The economic benefits of public festivals to the host towns

Beautiful Bishoftu is a resort town and like all resorts towns across the country its fame or reputation is based not only on its lovely climate and dense vegetations, its lakes and... Read more »