Side Goodo
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September 07, 2008
1. Introduction
The Kushitic (Cushitic) peoples of North East Africa are the indigenous peoples of the present day Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya since at least 5000 BC. The equivalent name of the indigenous Kushitic peoples of North East Africa was Ethiopid, from which the name of...
August 24, 2008
The question of nationalities in Ethiopia has been the most contentious issue since Ethiopia took its current shape between the late 1880s and the early 1900s. The northern part of the present day Ethiopia, inhabited by the majority Abyssinians and the minority Kushitic Agews existed for over 2 Mi...
August 15, 2008
3. Comment on "Africa is giving nothing to any one, apart from Aids"
Myers´ Arguments Untenable
Myers´ frustration on lack of sustainable economic progress in Ethiopia is shared by many. However, Africa is not Ethiopia. The picture of wide-eyed child does not reflect the picture...
August 14, 2008
1. Introduction
The perception in the west of Africa still being a "Dark Continent" has not waned yet. Only 8 years ago, May 2000, The Economist portrayed Africa as "The Hopeless Continent". Africa has, however, proved its critics wrong since then. Although the continent still remains poor, its...
July 06, 2008
1. Historical Trends of Commodity Prices
For many decades, at least until recently, overall commodity prices have tended to decline relative to the prices of other outputs, although with considerable volatility. Much of this volatility has been due to large cycles in the real prices of food and ...
May 31, 2008
1. Introduction
According to the United Nation´s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Measured both ...
March 23, 2008
1. Introduction
Soaring inflation is deepening Ethiopia´s economic crisis. According to the foreign based Ethiopian sources, inflation in the country has reached an alarming 35% in January 2008 while the government sources indicate that it is about 20%. In either case, there is real eviden...
March 15, 2008
1. Introduction
Kenya has long been considered as a haven for peace and stability in the East African sub region. Hundreds of thousands of refugees who were displaced due to political instability and civil wars in several neighbouring countries including Ethiopia have been flocking into this coun...
December 20, 2007
1. Introduction
At present, many economists agree that economic development implies not merely growth plus change but growth plus progressive changes in the socio-economic structure of the country. It implies changes in technology, the system of production organisation and pattern of income distr...
December 07, 2007
Coffee is the second most widely traded commodity in the world next to petroleum where more than 80 countries cultivate coffee, which is exported as the raw, roasted or soluble product to more than 165 countries worldwide. It is the most important agricultural commodity in the world, and is worth up...
December 03, 2007
“Human inability to alter the course of wretchedness and misery results in a desire for diversion. But the flaw in diverting our attention via diversion lies in the fact that it keeps us from realizing truth: And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us th...
November 29, 2007
1. Introduction
For the good part of the twentieth century, the country was under two totalitarian political systems. These were the archaic feudal monarchy and the diehard socialist-cum-military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s. The current regime is awashed with rhetoric of democracy, press ...