Curriculum Ethiopia's Economy
Ethiopia's Economy
How Africa's second most populous country pursued state-led growth: coffee, the developmental state, industrial parks, Ethiopian Airlines, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the Tigray war, debt default and reforms, the birr float, and a recap.
- Ethiopia at a Glance An overview of Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country with over 120 million people, its fast growth in the 2000s and 2010s, and its challenges. 📄 Read-aloud
- Coffee: Ethiopia's Gift to the World How Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, depends on coffee exports, how smallholders grow it, and the role of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange. 📄 Read-aloud
- Ethiopia's Developmental State How Prime Minister Meles Zenawi modelled Ethiopia on East Asian developmental states, with heavy public investment, state banks and control over key sectors. 📄 Read-aloud
- Industrial Parks and Manufacturing How Ethiopia built industrial parks like Hawassa to attract garment makers with cheap labour and power, the early successes, and why exports disappointed. 📄 Read-aloud
- Ethiopian Airlines: An African Success How state-owned Ethiopian Airlines became Africa's largest and most profitable airline, using Addis Ababa as a hub linking Africa to the world. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam How Ethiopia built Africa's largest hydropower dam on the Blue Nile, financed largely at home, and the dispute with Egypt and Sudan over water. 📄 Read-aloud
- Ethiopia's Economy: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on Ethiopia's growth, coffee, the developmental state, industrial parks and Ethiopian Airlines. 5 questions
- The Tigray War's Economic Toll How the 2020-2022 war in Tigray killed many people, disrupted the economy, cut foreign aid and trade preferences, and damaged Ethiopia's growth story. 📄 Read-aloud
- Debt Default and Restructuring How Ethiopia's heavy borrowing for infrastructure, much of it from China, led to a default on a Eurobond payment in December 2023 and a debt restructuring. 📄 Read-aloud
- Floating the Birr How Ethiopia floated its currency, the birr, in July 2024 as part of an IMF deal, ending a big black-market gap, and the effects on prices and imports. 📄 Read-aloud
- Opening Telecoms and Banking How Ethiopia ended the state telecom monopoly by licensing Safaricom in 2021, and began opening banking to foreign investors. 📄 Read-aloud
- Farming and Food Security How most Ethiopians depend on rain-fed farming, the role of the Productive Safety Net Programme, and efforts to boost wheat output. 📄 Read-aloud
- Ethiopia's Economy: Recap A recap of Ethiopia's state-led growth, its crises and reforms, and lessons for other developing countries. 📄 Read-aloud