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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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Land and Ethiopia’s Corruptocracy

no corrThe silence of Ethiopia’s “beautiful minds”

Professor A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the renowned Indian scientist  (“Missile Man of India”)  and Eleventh President of India (2002-2007) said, “If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of

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