by Yaada Magazine | Jul 30, 2026 | Money
A central bank tells you most when it stops short of reassurance. The National Bank of Ethiopia’s Third Financial Stability Report, issued on 17 March, carries a genuinely positive headline — improved macroeconomic indicators and a stable banking system — and...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 27, 2026 | Economics
A US$12.5 billion airport is not really an aviation project. It is a financing project that happens to have runways. Ethiopia’s planned Bishoftu mega-airport — set to be among the largest on the continent — has never wanted for ambition. What it needs is...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 24, 2026 | Economics
Africa does not lack money. It lacks the machinery to keep its own money working at home. That distinction sits at the centre of the eleven-point consensus African policymakers agreed in Abidjan on 20 April — a roadmap built on a single uncomfortable arithmetic. The...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 21, 2026 | Economics
When a major donor pauses funding to a country, the headline is the pause. When it returns, the headline is usually the money. The more telling figure in the European Union’s 16 April re-engagement with Ethiopia is neither — it is the conditions attached to it....
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 18, 2026 | Economics
For most of the past decade, Ethiopia’s growth story was told in fields and factories: coffee on the export ledger, oilseeds in the ports, an industrial-park strategy built to move the country up the value chain. The headline from the National Bank of...
