Year: 2012

  • Questioning the logic of “international agendas”!

    A just world takes more than a mere change of “economic design” and “paradigm shift” on how to do economic business  Taye Negussie (Phd) The recently released report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Global Sustainability titled ‘Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing’ has set forth a vision of a “sustainable planet, just society, and…

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  • Africa

    Darfur – healing at last, hopefully

    In the wake of a complex civil war like the one that ravaged Darfur, it is easy to lose hope of a return to normalcy. But the odds of claiming a peaceful Darfur never looked promising, says our managing editor Tsedale Lemma Ed’s note: This story was first published in  March 2012 edition of Addis Standard magazine If the UN…

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  • Talk Business

    Access Real Estate & Soliton Holding – A partnership worth two billion birr or maybe more

    A promising joint venture between two real estate companies may see thousands of metropolitans in Addis Ababa get houses of their dreams  Access Real Estate S.C (ARE) claims the private sector in Ethiopia was “able to construct no more than 12,000 units for the last 40 years.” That is a bad prospect for a country of 80 million-odd, of whom…

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  • A Radisson Blu taste awaits World Economic Forum

    Its general manager Guillaume Massiera positions it somewhere “between the Hilton and the Sheraton”; he doesn’t pretend his hotel to be outrageously luxurious; (unlike other branches of the hotel throughout the world, this one misses out on the fun of having a swimming pool); but Mr. Massiera believes since the Radisson Blu Addis Ababa opened its doors on January 9th…

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  • Africa

    What now?

    Ethiopia’s recent military strike against rebel-controlled outposts inside Eritrea sent a signal of yet another full-blown war in the making. All things can happen but that, says Tsedale Lemma For the leaders of two countries who embraced war as their best resort to get desperately needed power there is nothing as tickly as dragging on indefinitely in a state of…

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  • Poverty in Ethiopia – Arithmetic fairytale

    How an interim report about poverty alarmingly omits the poor from its index and declares a decline in poverty.  Hone Mandefro  With the start of the new millennium in the year 2000, the World Bank and IMF replaced the decades-old Structural Adjustment Programs with Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) as the basis for their lending. It was part of the…

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  • What now should be clear to us all!

    Dear editor, I came across with you rather unique and fascinating magazine for the first time by a sheer coincides. I would like to extend my appreciation to the professional work accomplished by the team of writers on your magazine. Having said so, I would like to comment on your cover page story (What now?, April 2012). While you are…

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  • Topic of the Month

    Tears of elections, of revolutions and of the Golden Lady

    24 is the number of countries scheduled to conduct national elections in the year 2012. Plenty of reasons to shed tears; tears of euphoria and of sadness alike. Selahadin Eshetu Getahun We live in a complicated global system that gives us plenty of reasons to shed tears. I know I am not inclined to cry but there have been a…

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  • AAU – home of aristocracy and aversion

    Dear Editor, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has sponsored a large number of graduate (Masters and PhD) students from the universities all over the country. Addis Ababa University (AAU) is the host for the majority of the studies, and the number of graduate students at the university now is ten times the number a few years ago, of whom I was…

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  • U.S

    That’s America!

    The re-election of a dangerous president in modern American history   In this section Addis Standard’s correspondent Tomas Mega from Las Vegas, Nevada, will be following the 2012 Presidential election in the United States of America.   The battle for the Republican nomination for President is entering its final phase and, unsurprisingly, the rhetoric of the candidates has intensified. Newt…

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