The Economist | LUSAKA BUYING ‘Fair Trade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor, new research suggests. By comparing living standards in Fair Trade-certified producing areas in Ethiopia and Uganda with similar non-Fair Trade regions, four development economists from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London found that Fair Trade agricultural
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World Finance Moody’s has issued Ethiopia with a B1 rating for currency sovereign credit. Prime Minister Hailemarian Desalegn has indicated that with the sovereign credits ratings, a bond sale will follow Two top global agencies rate the fast-growing African nation for the first time and investors pay attention Ethiopia has been one of the fastest
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By Richard Lough ADDIS ABABA, May 14 (Reuters) – Ethiopia has not yet decided if it will follow other African countries that have tapped international markets with Eurobonds, the finance minister said on Wednesday after his country secured a sovereign credit rating. Ethiopia, which has previously said it was considering issuing a Eurobond, was awarded
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The New York Times Photo by Mr. Tsegaye Over the last 16 years, he has been making pictures of rural and urban Ethiopia as his homeland transforms itself. He captures sweeping panoramas, of markets springing up along newly built roads, or small details, like the cracked images on gravestones being moved to make way for
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Reuters (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Link to Fitch Ratings’ Report: Ethiopia – Rating Action Report herePARIS/LONDON, May 09 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has assigned Ethiopia Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) of ‘B’. The…
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By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia expects to get its first sovereign credit ratings within two weeks, Finance and Economic Development Minister Sufian Ahmed said, paving the way for the country’s first foray on to international bond markets. The…
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Recently published research from Business Monitor International, “Ethiopia Business Forecast Report 2014″, is now available at Fast Market Research Boston, MA — (SBWIRE) — 05/02/2014 — Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s death did not have the politically destabilising effect many anticipated,…
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25 April 2014 The Star Kenya and Ethiopia have signed a bilateral agreement to develop a One-Stop Border Post at Moyale. The Ministry of Transport has said the agreement seeks to enhance transport services along the border crossing, strengthen trade…
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25 April 2014 The Star Kenya and Ethiopia have signed a bilateral agreement to develop a One-Stop Border Post at Moyale. The Ministry of Transport has said the agreement seeks to enhance transport services along the border crossing, strengthen trade…
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24 April 2014 VOA News By Marthe van der Wolf Outside the Ethiopian Commodities Exchange in Addis Ababa, on May 29, 2013. (Photo: Getty Images) ADDIS ABABA — Young Ethiopians are eager to benefit from the economic growth of the last…
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