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20 May 2014 News Briefs (UPDATED)
. Ethiopia: If the shoe fits, build zones . Textile companies and retailers are setting up operations in and around Addis Ababa to take advantage of the low cost of labour . Chinese shoemaker Huajian...
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Beles sugar project: A visit to Meles Zenawi village, Resettled farmers
. Posted on Friday, May 23, 2014 by Fetsum W. Berhane . In western Ethiopia, about 576 km from Addis Ababa, lay a mega sugar project expected to double Ethiopia’s current sugar production. Water...
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17 June 2014 News Briefs
. Ethiopia, Israel keen to deepen ties . Ethiopia and Israel have agreed to further deepen all-round relations between the two countries. Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman is in Ethiopia where...
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Making impact investible key to removing roadblocks on the way to Middle Income
. Dr Maximilian Martin, exclusive for Addis Standard Ethiopia is part of a new set of high-opportunity countries with exceptional potential for modernization, the “EMICs” (Ethiopia, Myanmar, Iran, and...
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08 July 2014 Development News Briefs
. Europeans finance the Awash – Weldya railway project . Seven financial institutions along with the Ministry of Finance and Economy Development (MoFED) and the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) are...
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19 July 2014 Economic News
. New Nile Petroleum Company Headquarters in Ethiopia . Nile Petroleum Company announced that new headquarters of the company will be inaugurated soon in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The...
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Ethiopia – cracking the local code
Anna Rosenberg, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa at FSG, is currently on a research trip to Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Here are her latest insights: As I sit on the plane from Addis Ababa to London, I am...
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The coming of the multinationals
By Asrat Seyoum and Wudineh Zenebe New foreign policy direction has been in the works in Ethiopia during the past few years. It is a slow evolution to the so-called ‘economic diplomacy’ and by now, the...
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Ethiopia’s promise buried in web of State regulations
By Toddy Thairu Posted Sunday, August 24 2014 Ethiopia is fast becoming the preferred destination for foreign investors coming into sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Bank. Ethiopia’s...
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Biosafety Bill to Open Door to GMOs in Ethiopia
It was in 2009/2010 that the Ethiopian Institution of Agricultural Research stared constructing a Central Biotech Laboratory in Holetta town, (above) complete with a molecular lab, plant biotech,...
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06 October 2014 Economic News (UPDATED)
. U.S. farmers latest to sue Syngenta over GMO corn rejected by China . . (Reuters) – Farmers from the biggest U.S. corn-growing states have sued Syngenta AG over sales of genetically modified corn...
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A twenty-one month comparative analysis of the progress in the construction...
. By Bereket Gebru – Oct. 30, 2014 Anyone who gets a chance to visit the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is envied by everyone around them. Even those who have travelled well across the country...
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Doing Business: Easier in Ethiopia than Kenya, except for start-ups
. Posted on Friday, November 14, 2014 By Fetsum Berhane . Highlights: - Ethiopia’s is 132nd of the 189 economies, 4 points above the 136th Kenya, in the overall global ranking of ease of doing...
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26 January 2015 Business News Round-Up
. Turkey to invest in Ethiopia’s hydropower . Turkish President visiting Ethiopia on January 22, 2015 at national palace of Ethiopia BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE The Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
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16 March 2015 Business News Briefs
. Reprieve for firms as Comesa favours lower merger fees . Companies eyeing the regional market through mergers and acquisitions may get a reprieve as Comesa considers lowering by up to 60 per cent...
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