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Ethiopia Becomes China’s China in Search for Cheap Labor
. Ethiopian employees work inside the Huajian Shoes’ factory outside Addis Ababa . By Kevin Hamlin, Ilya Gridneff and William Davison Jul 22, 2014 Ethiopian workers strolling through the parking lot of...
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22 July 2014 News Round-Up (UPDATED)
. World Bank Urges Ethiopia to Devalue Birr to Boost Exports By William Davison Jul 22, 2014 Ethiopia’s birr is overvalued and the country would benefit from a...
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Bill Gates Finally Gets His College Degree
Bill Gates Addis Ababa University Honorary Degree July 24, 2014 Thank you for that introduction, Dr. Admasu Tsegaye [President of Addis Ababa University]. Prime Minister Hailemariam; distinguished...
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24 July 2014 News Round-Up
. Infrastructural investment to drive mobile expansion in Ethiopia, DRC . The underdeveloped mobile communications markets of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia are set to expand...
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The U.S. – Africa Leaders Summit: Deepening Trade and Commercial Ties
Zenia Lewis and Witney Schneidman - July 24, 2014 Editor’s Note: The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit blog series is a collection of posts discussing efforts to strengthen ties between the United States...
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Where China Goes To Outsource Its Own Soaring Labor Costs
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 30 years ago, the great outsourcing wave took millions of US low-skilled jobs and planted them right in the heart of China, which was about to undergo the...
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27 July 2014 News Round-Up
. Huajian Group to build its own industry zone . - Receives 138 hectare plot The Chinese shoe company, which has already heavily invested in Ethiopia at the Eastern Industrial Zone in Dukem town of...
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29 July 2014 Economic News
. Aviation: Ethiopians’ Big Ambitions New operators and services are entering new markets but, as ever, there are only two options when it comes to buying wide-bodied aircraft: Boeing and Airbus. Neil...
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Potash firm moves senior boss to Ethiopia
CAREER CHANGE: Phil Baines, managing director at Cleveland Potash, in Boulby, east Cleveland, is moving to work in Ethiopia . A SENIOR figure at a potash firm is leaving his role just weeks after...
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Addis Ababa Doubling in Size Gives Africa Another Hub
By William Davison Aug 1, 2014 A woman shelters from the sun with an umbrella as she walks along the construction site of Asmara road in Addis Ababa. The city is the third-likeliest city in the...
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01 August 2014 News Round-Up
. Leaders explore joint financing for LAPSSET project . Written by KENNEDY KANGETHE The leaders who attended a consultative meeting in Nairobi on Thursday were President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda,...
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05 August 2014 Business News Briefs – (UPDATED)
. US-Ethiopian Summit concludes successful and US companies to invest billions in Ethiopia . Tigrai Onlne – August 04, 2014 A high level Ethiopian delegation have concluded a very successful US –...
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Africa agricultural initiative gets $7 billion boost from private companies
By Juliet Eilperin – August 5, 2014 A group of African and U.S. firms on Tuesday will announce an additional $7 billion in spending to promote agricultural development in Africa, nearly doubling an...
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“Small-holder farming can generate over one trillion birr”
- Getachew Tikubet, (pictured, above), operations director at Bio-Economy Africa 09 August 2014 Written by Berhanu Fekade Getachew Tikubet holds a PhD in Biology with specialization on ecology and...
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15 August 2014 News Round-Up
Africa’s top 10 future investment cities By Thandi Skade | August 14, 2014 Forget Joburg, Lagos and Kinshasa. Economists say the new investment opportunity hotspots in Africa are cities in Ethiopia,...
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1st IPI – Ministry of Agriculture – ATA Ethiopia Joint Symposium
. The Role of Potassium in Cropping Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa: Current Status and Potential for Increasing Productivity . 04-05 September 2014 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia . Background The sustainability...
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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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18 August 2014 Business News
US-Africa Summit An ‘Eye Opener’ For U.S. Business Community . By Dana Sanchez http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/us-africa-leaders-summit” width=”621″...
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20 August 2014 News Briefs
. Initiative for Mining Transparency Summit Opens in Addis . The Initiative for Mining Transparency in East and West Africa Summit kicked off on Wednesday in Addis Ababa. Participating countries are...
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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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