Developmental State?

Ethiopia’s social divisions masked by ethnicity

While ethnic conflict is salient in Ethiopia, there are many under-discussed societal divisions that are causing and fueling it. Ethnic…

5 years

From Meles’ ‘Dead End’ to Abiy’s ‘New Horizon’

After authoritarian development hit the rocks, Ethiopia needs a concerted democratic approach to escaping poverty. But freedom has its own…

7 years

“Leba! Leba!” Abiy inspires farmers’ revolt in North Shoa village

Emboldened by the Prime Minister's dismantling of the status quo, youthful malcontents in rural Amhara are taking the fight to…

8 years

Enough tweaks. Time to radically downsize NBE’s failing levy on lenders

Seven years on, there is little evidence to justify the rationales for coercing private banks to fund long-term lending by…

8 years