Tag Archives: Ethiopia Inflation
Ethiopia: An Early Warning for a Famine in 2013
Posted on October 7, 2012, 9:35 pm By

For the past several months, there has been much display of public sorrow and grief in Ethiopia. But not for the millions of invisible Ethiopians who are suffering and dying…

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What Should Starving Ethiopians do to Help Themselves?
Posted on September 5, 2011, 1:04 am By

Alemayehu G. Mariam In 1987 when Time Magazine featured a famine-stricken Ethiopian mother on its cover page, it failed to ask the most important question of all: What should Ethiopians do…

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Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi
Posted on June 19, 2011, 11:53 pm By

There is the economics of Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism. There is Levitt & Dubner’s freakonomics of weird stuff. Then there is the fakeonomics (economics by gimmickry) of  Meles…

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Ethiopia: The Voodoo Economics of Meles Zenawi
Posted on April 19, 2010, 1:26 am By

“There are lies, lies and implausible lies,” to quote Meles Zenawi, the dictator-cum-economic spinmeister of Ethiopia. Last week, Zenawi told a snickering Parliament a story that is the equivalent of…

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