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Trillion-Dollar Rebuff Spurs African Road Trip: Israel Markets
. By Jonathan Ferziger Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman is seeking deals in the world’s fastest-growing economies for companies including defense contractor Elbit Systems Ltd., irrigation...
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The British ex-pat who has opened a farm in Ethiopia
. By James Jeffrey / 18 June 2014 Beside the small town of Adiguden a group of cows prance and buck when released from their shed into a paddock beneath the piercing sunshine of the midday sun in...
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19 June Ethiopian Economic News
. Geology and Mineral Information Systems Experts to meet in Addis Ababa . Experts working in the area of African geology and mineral information Systems will assemble in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from...
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The new scramble for Africa (part 1)
. With the African continent home to the majority of the world’s fastest-growing economies, urban consumer markets and a wealth of natural resources, it’s perhaps not surprising that some of the...
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20 June 2014 News Items
Nation Keeps Inflation Rate at Single Digit . The government of Ethiopia has managed to keep the general inflation rate at single digit for the last 15 months, the Central Statistics Agency said. The...
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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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22 June 2014 Weekend News Round-Up
. Agribusiness: Africa’s Tool to Overcome Unemployment and Poverty . VENTURES AFRICA – While African nation such as Nigeria, Angola, Libya and Egypt have relied heavily on revenue accruing from oil...
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25 June 2014 News Briefs (UPDATED)
. Nigeria Signs Bi-Lateral Agreement With Ethiopia . Nigerian and Ethiopian authorities have agreed to deepen relationship in the area of trade and investment, tourism and agriculture. . Addressing a...
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26 June 2014 News Round-Up
. Authority to Construct Road to Interconnect Omo-Kuraz Sugar Factories . The Ethiopian Roads Authority here Wednesday signed contract agreement amounting to 2.5 billion Birr with the Chinese...
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Addis Ababa ranked first in Africa and third in the world on ‘Cities of the...
. Global Cities, Present and Future 2014 Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook . . Today more than ever, global cities need to run just to stand still. Urban leaders who wish to provide their...
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27 June 2014 Development News
. Statement by an IMF Staff Mission on the 2014 Article IV Consultation with Ethiopia . . An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by S. Kal Wajid visited Addis Ababa June 11-25 to conduct...
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BRIC Was It, Now EMIC Is the Thing
. Jennifer Schwab Chief Sustainability Officer, SCGH.com “Daring for Big Impact” was held at the Greifenstein Castle in Switzerland. . So you’ve probably heard of the BRIC countries as discussion of...
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Making a Power(ful) Impact on Ethiopia
. Ethiopian-born Canadian entrepreneur Nejib Abba Biya was hoping to operate a mining facility in his homeland, but his plans were thwarted by one thing — a lack of energy to power the mine. That is...
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Grasping Sustainability – a World-Class Textile and Garment Industry Can...
. In the 1860s,an English discoverer named C.T. Beke proposed to construct a 225-mile railroad to open up trade with the southernmost territories ruled by the Pasha of Egypt who nominally reported to...
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30 June 2014 News Briefs – (UPDATED)
. President Obiang Asks for Greater Investment in Agricultural Sector . Equatorial Guinea’s President, Obiang Nguema Mbasogo said that Africa should reorient itself to ensure its independence and...
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03 June 2014 Development News Round-Up
. Government To Create Favorable Condition For Manufacturing Sector . Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said a favourable condition wherein local investors could engage in manufacturing would be...
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Will Ethiopia’s New Sovereign Credit Rating Increase Foreign Investment?
. Last month, Moody’s Investors Service assigned a debut sovereign rating of B1 to the government of Ethiopia. A B1 rating is equivalent to a B rating in Fitch Ratings’ scale, which is the agency that...
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Inside Monsanto, America’s Third-Most-Hated Company
Drake Bennett is a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek in New York. By Drake Bennett – July 03, 2014 Photographs by Daniel Shea for Bloomberg BusinessWeek Robb Fraley, Monsanto’s chief...
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Destination report: Ethiopia rising
. Author – Paul Revel The Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) recently announced it was moving its 2014 event to Addis Ababa. The organisation said the move was prompted by a “surge in interest from...
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Ethiopia cultivates seed banks to lay famine ghost to rest
Author: E.G. Woldegebriel EJERE WOREDA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thirty years after the famine that killed more than a million people in Ethiopia and shocked the world into belated...
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