by Yaada Magazine | Aug 29, 2026 | Money
A trade surplus in a country that imports most of what it consumes is the kind of result that deserves a second look before a celebration. Ethiopia has recorded one — a balance-of-payments surplus built on stronger exports and transfers — and the National Bank of...
by Yaada Magazine | Aug 26, 2026 | Money
When two interest rates that should move together start moving apart, the gap is telling you something the headline rate will not. In Ethiopia today, the government can borrow short-term money at 12.4 percent while banks lending to one another are paying 19.7 percent....
by Yaada Magazine | Aug 23, 2026 | Money
Falling inflation is usually reported as relief. For anyone deciding whether to borrow, it is better understood as a change in the terms of a bet. When prices were climbing at more than fifteen percent a year, debt quietly forgave itself — every month of inflation...
by Yaada Magazine | Aug 20, 2026 | Money
Every regulator that bans a market is also, implicitly, conceding that the market exists. Ethiopia’s reaffirmed prohibition on peer-to-peer crypto trading in birr is best read this way: not as a statement that digital assets are absent from the country, but as...
by Yaada Magazine | Aug 17, 2026 | Money
A banking system can look its healthiest at precisely the moment its risks are migrating somewhere harder to see. Ethiopia’s lenders are reporting cleaner books and fatter margins, even as the bulk of the country’s financial activity moves onto rails the...
