Global Property Platform opens Office in Ethiopia
Lamudi, the global property platform, has announced the official launch of Lamudi Ethiopia. The promoters say it is an easy to use platform, which enables customers to easily find or sell their...
View ArticleUsing trade to boost Africa’s industrialization
Deliberate trade policies could lead to growth Sanusi Lamido, a former governor of the central bank of Nigeria, once railed against his country for spending “huge resources importing consumer goods...
View ArticleEthiopia urged to ‘Improve Investment Climate to become Manufacturing...
The World Bank has published a series of recommendations to help support Ethiopia’s “transformation into a manufacturing powerhouse” by 2025. Recommendations in the bank’s latest ‘Ethiopia Economic...
View ArticleWhat makes the FFD3 Conference in Addis a Big Deal?
This year, we can make history by adapting an ambitious, sustainable development agenda and a universal climate agreement. But without the right financing and policies, we cannot achieve our ambitions…...
View ArticleAdvocating Transformation
Zemedeneh Negatu is the Managing Partner of Ernst & Young in Ethiopia and Head of Transaction Advisory Services. He has a wide variety of clientèle including prominent investors from Africa and the...
View ArticleEthiopia: From Famine to Feast
A nation once characterized by land-locked isolation and poverty, Ethiopia has emerged as Africa’s ‘newest Lion economy’ and continues to accelerate in the global economy. Ethiopia was once a synonym...
View Article‘Ethiopia Rising’– High Level Event Held in Addis Ababa
A High-level Side Event entitled “Ethiopia Rising: Determined to become a Carbon Neutral Middle Income Manufacturing Hub by 2025″ was held on July 14 at Sheraton Addis Hotel, in Addis Ababa. The High...
View Article‘Historic’ agreement reached on Financing for New UN Sustainable Development...
Countries agreed today on a series of bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges at the United...
View ArticleMore than 30 Countries, International Organizations Launch Addis Tax Initiative
Strong domestic tax system, including stronger tax institutions and the stemming of cross-border and domestic tax evasion, have been described as “mobilizers of revenues” for development at the...
View ArticleBosch Keen to Invest in the Country
The largest supplier of automotive spare parts, food processing machinery and household products, the German based company, Bosch, has expressed interest to invest in Ethiopia following talks with...
View ArticleEY Says Ethiopia Will Be Sub-Saharan Africa’s 3rd Largest Economy by 2017
Ethiopia is projected to be the third largest economy in the Sub-Saharan Africa by 2017, says Ernst and Young’s (EY) study titled “Investing in Ethiopia”. The study states the prominent ten reasons for...
View ArticleUN boosts trade presence in East Africa
The UN is opening a new trade office in Ethiopia in a bid to boost lagging commerce between African nations Addis Ababa will play host to a regional office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and...
View ArticleGreat Trade Expectations behind the US-Ethiopia Trade Relations
In 1903, the United States and one of the world’s oldest nations, Ethiopia, established a relationship. Emperor Menelik II described the day as “… beginnings of a relationship which will have some...
View ArticleAfrica can Leapfrog Dirty Energy – President Obama
President Barack Obama says African countries have the opportunity to skip the dependency on fossil fuel and other forms of dirty energy, and move straight to clean and renewable energy. Speaking...
View ArticleU.S. plans Investor Roadshow for Africa to Boost Investment
The United States will launch an African investor roadshow later this year to connect entrepreneurs with potential U.S. investors as part of a push for increased trade with the continent, the U.S....
View ArticleEthiopia moving forward with Biotechnology
GMO Cotton to be experimented by end of next year Ethiopia could start plantation for experimental purpose, the much controversial BT Cotton Next year, capital learned. According to Endale Gebre (PhD),...
View ArticleU.S Investment in Entrepreneurship
President Obama and President Kenyatta opened the 6th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), co-hosted by the United States and the Government of Kenya, and announced new commitments to promote...
View ArticleWhy Africa’s Off-Grid Energy Start-Ups need Investors
With 600 million Africans hungry for electricity, off-grid energy is poised to take off — if local entrepreneurs can get the capital they need to scale their business. Getting electricity to the 600...
View ArticleObama’s trip to Ethiopia: Economic Highlights
In advance of President Obama’s trip to East Africa on July 23, the Africa Growth Initiative had prepared short travel companions on the economic environments in both Ethiopia and Kenya. The...
View ArticleGlobal Entrepreneurship Summit Highlights Growing African Business
The U.S. hosted the first Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Washington, D.C. in 2010. This past weekend, President Barack Obama attended the sixth annual gathering of entrepreneurs large and small,...
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