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Ethiopia’s “Odious Debt” to the Odious World Bank

FEBRUARY 8, 2015 10:57PM

WBEthiopia as “sovereign deadbeat” state due to debts incurred by the T-TPLF

In my last commentary, The World Bank and Ethiopia’s “Growth and Transformation”, I cryptically observed in passing, “… The USD$600 million is money

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The World Bank and Ethiopia’s “Growth and Transformation”

Growth Transformation10The World Bank lies, Ethiopia dies… from onerous “odious debt”

I had completely forgotten about the so-called “Growth and Transformation Plan” (GTP) of 2010, until the World Bank reminded me of it last week.

That “Plan” was the late Meles …

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What Should Starving Ethiopians do to Help Themselves?

Alemayehu G. Mariam

In 1987 when Time Magazine featured a famine-stricken Ethiopian mother on its cover page, it failed to ask the most important question of all: What should Ethiopians do and not do to help themselves?

It is the …

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