Ethiopia: An Early Warning for a Famine in 2013
For the past several months, there has been much display of public sorrow and grief in Ethiopia. But not for… (more)
Ethiopia Inflation
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… (more)
Ethiopia: The Fakeonomics of Meles Zenawi
There is the economics of Adam Smith, the intellectual father of capitalism. There is Levitt & Dubner’s freakonomics of weird… (more)
Ethiopia: The Voodoo Economics of Meles Zenawi
“There are lies, lies and implausible lies,” to quote Meles Zenawi, the dictator-cum-economic spinmeister of Ethiopia. Last week, Zenawi told… (more)