Month: June 2014

  • Africa

    Southern Africa most unequal region in Africa

    The higher the country’s income, the higher the levels of inequality. This is according to preliminary findings of a new report on economic growth and income inequality in Southern Africa. Findings of a study undertaken by the Economic Commission for Africa – ECA Southern Africa Office and UNDP Zambia Country Office indicate a region grappling with high levels of inequality…

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  • Making impact investible key to removing roadblocks on the way to Middle Income

    Dr Maximilian Martin, exclusive for Addis Standard   Ethiopia is part of a new set of high-opportunity countries with exceptional potential for modernization, the “EMICs” (Ethiopia, Myanmar, Iran, and Colombia). All are high-stakes countries with a history of expansion and empire, conflict, a considerable proportion of young and educated job seekers, high potential for growth and turnaround, strong foreign direct…

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  • Tolerating free marketplace of ideas that never was, and still is

    In many ways than few, the Ethiopia of 23 years before look nothing like the Ethiopia of today. Nor should it, under any circumstance, look the same anyway – for better or worse. Fortunately, Ethiopia is a lot better today than it was then; and not without proof. Ethiopia’s absolute command-turned-mixed-economy was a source of pain for its citizens; communist…

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  • U.S

    The war over the minimum wage

    If the Federal minimum wage is increased, and Mr. [Warren] Buffett is correct that you do lose some employment as you increase the minimum wage, it will likely impact only a fraction of those 2.6% of American workers, a tiny amount.  So why not just do it?  Tomas Mega, our US Correspondent,explains In April, Democrats suffered two defeats in their…

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  • Africa

    South Sudanese refugees update: MSF calls for special mobilization

    Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, an organization providing medical aid to South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia since January this year, says the emergency situation of the refugees calls for special mobilizations of South Sudanese refugees. Describing the situation, Antoine Foucher, MSF’s head of mission in Ethiopia, said since the conflict in South Sudan broke out in December, an average of…

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  • Africa

    Drought likely in the Horn as famine threatens South Sudan and Somalia

    Kalkidan Yibeltal Greater part of the Horn is likely to experience a considerable moisture deficit, according to a recent climatic early warning report on rainfall irregularity issued by the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The report, which is based on satellite-derived observations, states that the 2014 rainy season…

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  • Girl Power

    By Gordon Brown LONDON – It has been eight weeks since the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from their school dormitories in Chibok, in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The geopolitical implications are now ramifying across Africa. Chad, Niger, and Cameroon are being drawn into the crisis, owing to growing suspicion that some of the girls…

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  • Africa

    Judge tells police to bring charges against Ethiopian bloggers, journalists

    Mahelt Fasil A judge at the Arada First Instance Court, First Bench, told the police this morning to finalize its investigations and bring charges against three independent journalists and three members of the blog Zone9 detained without charges since 25th and 26th of April this year. Defense lawyer Amha Mekonnen told journalists at the scene of the court that the…

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  • Africa

    New report says Ethiopia remains food insecure

    Kiram Tadesse The World Food Program (WFP) annual report launched on Wednesday June 11th says despite positive advances Ethiopia has shown in the past it remained one of world’s most food insecure countries. Over the past decade, a fast growing economy has helped bring the percentage of people living in extreme poverty from 38 per cent down to 29 per…

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  • Africa

    GIZ IS observed anniversary with social responsibility

    Employees of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit International Services (GIZ IS) in Ethiopia donated blood on 12 June 2014 at the Head Office located at China-Africa Square and at its project office in the premises of the African Union. GIZ IS Ethiopia set its foot in the country with the bole/gerji condominium housing ‘pilot’ project which was inaugurated in…

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