Ethiopia : News

[Addis Fortune]Ethiopia secured close to 2.2 billion dollars from export during the last nine months of the current fiscal year, which only shows a 2.8pc increment compared to the same period last year. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Following a year of strong growth in 2012 the near-term outlook for Ethiopia remains broadly positive, with growth projected to accelerate modestly to around 5.5pc in 2014, according to International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Regional Economic Outlook published last week. (AllAfrica)

[African Union]Welcome Remarks by HE Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has postponed the bid opening date of the auction of thirty membership seats it floated exclusively for farmers' cooperatives, to May 16, 2013. The initial bid opening date was April 31, 2012. (AllAfrica)

[HRInfo]Cairo in -The Arab Coalition for Darfur denounces the stand of the Ethiopian Embassy of refusing to give visas to the delegation of the Arab Coalition for Darfur to attend the second session of the "Civil Society Forum on Sudan and South Sudan," scheduled to take place in May 16-18 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, without giving any justifications and despite the completion of all the documents required from the ACD and the organization. (AllAfrica)

[CAF]The Ethiopian side St. George beat the visiting Egyptian side ENPPI 2-0 in the first leg of the Orange CAF Confederation Cup play off on Sunday at the Addis Ababa stadium. (AllAfrica)

[IPS]Addis Ababa -Despite comments by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn suggesting the pending withdrawal of his country's troops from Somalia, many experts have voiced doubts that Ethiopia will pull out of Somalia before it is capable of handling its security without assistance. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP]Ethiopia may soon send an ambassador to Luanda after having the consent by the Angolan authorities, which will lead to a more direct work as part of the relaunch of bilateral cooperation. (AllAfrica)

[CPJ]New York -Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa questioned an editor for several hours today in connection with a story published in October about the widow of the late Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, according to news reports. (AllAfrica)

[]The top officials and their accomplices apprehended by police for alleged grand corruption case including Melaku Fenta, Director General of Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority were in the Federal High Court Second Bench on Monday 13, May 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The Second Criminal Bench of the Federal High Court has adjourned the hearing of detained businessmen and top level officials from the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA), including director general Melaku Fenta, until tomorrow afternoon, May 14, 2012. (AllAfrica)

[ThinkAfricaPress]The Ethiopian government may be guilty of atrocities against indigenous peoples as it completes construction of the Gibe III dam. UK aid-agency DFID has failed to exert its influence and protect the rights of these minorities. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The Administration of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn made the full might of its power known last Friday, after ordering the arrest of 10 high and medium ranking officials of the Ethiopian Revenues & Customs Authority (ERCA), along with six businessmen, some of whom are well known. (AllAfrica)

[Ethiopia Government]Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who is in an official visit in Kuwait conferred with Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday (May 14, 2013). The discussion focused on ways to strengthen the bilateral relation between the two countries. Besides, the two sides exchanged views on trade and investment opportunities and on ways to increase Kuwaiti investment in Ethiopia .Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Rashid Alhajri, Kuwai (AllAfrica)

[Sudan Tribune]Addis Ababa -An Ethiopian federal policeman shot dead 14 innocent people in the northern west city of Bahirdar, a regional police source told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

[GFO]In the second phase of a Round 9 health systems strengthening (HSS) grant to Ethiopia, the emphasis will be on strengthening the health workforce, with a considerable focus on training. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The 10th edition of the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) was launched on Tuesday May 7, 2013 at the Addis Abeba University's Faculty of Business and Economics. The report was produced jointly by the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is the annual report card on the developing world's progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) will soon start requiring all banks operating in Ethiopia to report actual or attempted fraud to them within five days. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]In March 2010, 44 year old Muder Kemal, the father of two, banded together with seven of his friends and formed an enterprise. They named it Selam Leather Enterprise. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Belay had been with the CBE for 13 years, starting out as a clerk three years after graduating from Addis Abeba University. He got his Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Birmingham, with a specialty in Finance & International Banking. When Bekalu Zeleke became the bank's president in 2008, Belay became advisor to the president, becoming director of planning the following year. He was later appointed to the position of vice president in November 2010 with a salary of 12,00 (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Ethiopian Airlines announced last week it's plans to commence four weekly flights to Seoul, South Korea, the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world, starting June 18, 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Tedros Adhanom (PhD), minister of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said this while explaining about a possible measure he would have taken had EPRDF been intentionally targeting and displacing Amharic-speaking communities, as it is being claimed by some interest groups. Targeting specific communities is not in the behaviour of the EPRDF, in which he is a member of the executive council, Tedros told Hager Fikir Radio, a United States based public radio program, in an exclusive interview in the sideline of his recent (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The Hawassa branch of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) is to pay compensation to close to 300 households and a private company, Awassa Greenwood Plc, for damages related to sudden power surges, two weeks ago. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]A new tax capacity building programme funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) is planning to work with the Ethiopian government to put in place a more effective tax administration system. The Tanzanian government will also benefit from the programme. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Though the Ethiopian Standard Agency has set a mandatory national standard for about 221 basic food commodities, consumers still claim that the quality and the quantity of the standardized products are not being monitored. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has dismissed Brehan Hailu, minister of Justice, on Thursday, May 9, 2013 Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has dismissed Brehan Hailu, minister of Justice, on Thursday, May 9, 2013, sources disclosed to Fortune. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]The launch of the Japanese Design Today 100 Exhibition was held on Thursday May 9, 2013 at the Alliance Ethio Française. The event was organized by the Japan Foundation as part of its aim to carry out cultural exchange programmes through the works of Japanese artists. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Kokeb Flour & Pasta Factory, accused by Kokeb's labour union of paying a lower salary than it had agreed to as well as not providing safety gear and clothes, has been ordered by the City Government of Addis Abeba Labour Relations Board, to submit its defense on May 14, 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Addis Fortune]Allana Potash announced last week that its drilling results of the Dallol project could be extended beyond the original resource estimate. The company expects the results to increase its share prices. (AllAfrica)

This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country.  The Young Lives programme is interested in children’s development within the context of economic constraint and disparities, and cumulative risk.

Children’s well-being and life chances are, however, interdependent with those of their parents and carers and the communities in which they reside, so Young Lives also considers household and community circumstances as central to child well-being. Additionally, the impacts of poverty have to be assessed in terms of other forms of risk to children, such as environmental hazards or ill-health that are often a cause of, or exacerbated by, material lack.

Young Lives conceptualises poverty as multidimensional in both its causes and its consequences. Access to resources (financial and other) is at the root of poverty, and there are a number of channels through which poverty may operate and create risks for children. The advantages of multidimensional approaches are that:

• they help to demonstrate the interconnected nature of different aspects of deprivation
• they analyse when income is (or is not) a good predictor of outcomes important for children; and
• they can be used to summarise an aggregate of change over time in a more holistic and complete way than income measures alone