This week marks the 50th anniversary of the radical land reform encapsulated by the "Proclamation to Provide for the Public Ownership of Rural Lands." The proclamation was profound and marked a ...

Fifty years on, the 1975 Land Proclamation—born of student fervor, rural uprisings, and even tragic clashes—enters its golden jubilee with barely a whisper.

A FRICA HAS a new breadbasket—or so says Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister. Thanks to a state-led programme of ...

Reforms aimed at transforming Ethiopia from a centrally ... and improvement in access to urban land and Ethiopia’s infrastructure. Achieving the MDGs will require a significant rise in public ...

When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed unveiled his ambitious Homegrown Economic Reform (HGER) agenda--backed by a $3.4 billion extended credit facility (ECF) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ...

and the IMF made the reform a condition of unlocking a $3.4-billion aid programme. During the two-day visit, the first to Ethiopia since Georgieva took over as IMF managing director in 2019 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has praised Ethiopia's "strong progress" in its homegrown economic reform program.