Opening up the banking industry

Relatively speaking, Ethiopia’s financial sector has been growing with number local private institutions taking a leap from time to time. The young but also key sector has seen rise in terms of... Read more »

Augmenting coffee productivity, quality

Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee and it discovered earlier. Ethiopia is the geographic home of Coffee Arabica, the most popular beans worldwide. And, Ethiopia is one of the largest coffee producers... Read more »

Ethiopia unveils ‘blueprint’ to drive economic growth

 The government of Ethiopia has unveiled what it describes as a “Homegrown Economic Reform” agenda aimed at unlocking the country’s development potential. “Several months in the making and spearheaded by some of... Read more »

Setting the urban development agenda

Recently, Ethiopia hosted the 14th annual session of Global Forum on Human Settlement (GFHS) in Addis Ababa, which is the first GFHS forum taking place in Africa. With the theme, “Sustainable Development... Read more »

Exhibition for more investment and technology transfer

Amongst the many reasons why global stakeholders should take a closer look at Ethiopia, the first is its strategic location between Europe and Asia. The other point is that the country is... Read more »

Agricultural Commercialization Cluster to agricultural transformation

Agriculture is a viable sector to maintain and boost growth rates, create more jobs, ensure food security, reduce poverty and generate hard currency through promoting export. It is also a powerful driver... Read more »

Expanding agricultural biotech to attain food self sufficiency

Food, one of the basic human needs is not available to everyone in most of developing countries. It requires a great effort to attain it every day that’s why most of them... Read more »

Ethiopia’s Leather industry development sector, challenges and future prospects

Ethiopia possesses one of the world largest livestock populations of which: 57,829,953 cattle population that makes the country ranking 1st in Africa and 6th in the world; 28,892,380 sheep population which makes... Read more »

Society joins hands to sustain peace for development

Growth is expected to have remained cool in the last couple of years, constrained by a wide current account deficit, drought and security concerns. Recent data revealed that the trade deficit widened,... Read more »

Hawassa tourism revenues, tourist inflow amid instability

As a Land of Origin, Ethiopia is reputed for having plenty of tangible and intangible heritages that are found nowhere else. And Hawassa, the Capital of the South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples... Read more »