Does anyone know anything about economic freedom in Ethiopia? I’m going to be on a panel where this would be useful knowledge to have – and unfortunately, Ethiopia does not yet seem to be included in the Economic Freedom of the World project. Perhaps there is an included nation to which Ethiopian policy is roughly comparable?
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David
Mar 19 2007 at 11:24am
Well, using the advanced technology of a google search, the first hit was the Heritage Foundation’s report for 2007:
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Ethiopia
Gichilla
Mar 19 2007 at 11:42am
Is this pro-EPRDF website? If so, I don’t think I get fair and unbiased response to my question. Anyway, my question is How does the government reconcile the claim of 10 plus percent economic growth against the 30 something percent inflation in Ethiopia? over 90% of the population who live on salary no longet afford to feed their family. Only those who are members of the EPRDF affliate political organizations may afford such expenses. peace!
Tim Harford
Mar 19 2007 at 1:03pm
The World Bank publishes a good report, “Doing Business”. Very credible and lots of detail. The Ethiopia page is here.
calman
Mar 20 2007 at 4:38am
http://www.eeaecon.org/miscellaneous/vision2020/berhanuv2020.htm
– The Author, DR. Birhanu Nega, is in jail now in kaliti and most of his colleagues, the famous Ethiopian Economists, are also in Jail now and I will forward you to see the jailed Economists for more information.
Tex
Mar 20 2007 at 7:05pm
An important thing to remember is that the state still owns all of the land in Ethiopia, an admonitory lesson on the dubious benefits of Georgist land tenure.
Ethiopundit writes:
World Press Review enlarges on the same point:
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