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Cyberwar: With New Software, Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
NYTimes, May 1, 2009.

Credit Crunch - The Ethiopian Version
Access Capital, Apr, 2009.

    "The burden of monetary adjustment is being felt most acutely by the private sector, even though the source of Ethiopia’s rapid monetary expansion in recent years emanated from the public sector. Previous analysis by Access Capital has shown that the lion’s share of banking system credit was absorbed by the public sector in recent years; for instance, more than three-quarters of the 19.2 billion birr in new loans provided by the banking system last year went to the government and public enterprises."

Teklewold Atnafu intro to National Bank of Ethiopia Annual Report 2007/2008
Feb 20, 2009

    "With its 42.9 percent share in GDP, agriculture remains the major contributor (28.5 percent) to the annual economic growth as agriculture and allied activities increased by 7.5 percent, reflecting increased productivity, more land area brought under cultivation as well as favorable weather conditions.

    The industrial sector, with a share in total GDP of 13.0 percent, grew by 10.4 percent and its contribution to overall growth was 11.6 percent. The growth in industry was a reflection of expanded investments in hydroelectric power generating stations and the water sub-sector. The contributions of the manufacturing, mining and quarrying, and construction sub-sectors have also been noticeable.

    Similarly, the steady increase in the share of the services sector in overall real GDP over the last four years has been reinforced and the sector depicted a growth rate of 42.9 percent by the end of 2007/08. Its contribution to the annual economic growth also reached about 63 percent."

Links to Interesting Articles

OPEN LETTER TO THE BUYERS OF ETHIOPIAN SPECIALTY COFFEES Eleni Gabre-Madhin, ECX CEO April 17, 2009

Annual FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Mission Report Jan 2009 - "Cereal and pulse production from the meher season is forecast at 17.44 million tonnes, about 10 percent above the previous year’s post-harvest estimates. This is the fifth consecutive good meher harvest"

Conflicting professional obligations among government journalists in Ethiopia TS Skjerdal, Jul 2008. - " ...Informants tell about ministerial press conferences where reporters are given lists of pre-prepared questions from the editors. The questions actually come from the ministry which sent them out in the first place"

EthnoPolitics and Gabra Origins. Günther Schlee, Max Planck Inst. 2008 refers to: The People of the Five "Drums": Gabra Ethnohistorical Origins Aneesa Kassam, Univ. of Durham, 2006

- "Unfortunately, Aneesa Kassam seems to have accepted a high-level player in Ethiopian ethnic politics as her key informant rather uncritically"

Silencing the Ethiopian Courts: Non-Judicial Constitutional Review and its Impact on Human Rights C Mgbako, S Braasch, A Degol, M Morgan, F Segura, and T Tezera, Fordham Law, Dec 2008 - "The Ethiopian constitutional framers’ decision to vest the power of constitutional interpretation in a non-judicial body is unusual"

A Case Study of Aid Effectiveness in Ethiopia: Analysis of the Health Sector Aid Architecture. Getnet Alemu, AAU Assoc Dean; Brookings Inst, Apr 2009 - "In 2006, ODA [Aid] flows account for about 48 percent of the gross national savings, 40 percent of gross domestic investments, 58.5 percent of overall government expenditure..."

Abstracts of papers presented at the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Norway, 2007

Be Like Bees: The Politics of Mobilizing Farmers for Development in Tigray, Ethiopia. Segers et al., African Affairs, 2009

The 2008 Ethiopian Local Elections: the Return of Electoral Authoritarianism. L. Aalen and K. Tronvoll, African Affairs, 2009 - As a TPLF cadre recently explained to the authors: "We have stopped pretending democracy any more; this is a struggle for our survival."

Ethiopia: Repression Sets Stage for Non-Competitive Elections Human Rights Watch, April 2008

Ethiopia: Reforming Land Tenure Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 35 No. 116, June 2008 - "it is very unlikely that the Ethiopian government departs from the dependence path in rural politics and the practices to govern the rural populace and gives up its most precious power resource in the rural realm: the power to distribute land."

The Problematic of Democratizing a Multi-cultural Society: The Ethiopian Experience Merera Gudina, 2007

Policies to Promote Cereal Intensification in Ethiopia: A Review of Evidence and Experience. International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007

The Politician, the Priest and the Anthropologist: Living Beyond Conflict in Southwestern Ethiopia David Turton, 2002


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