by Yaada Magazine | Jul 15, 2026 | Economics
Fast growth and fragile finances usually arrive together, and the gap between them is where forecasts go to be tested. Ethiopia enters 2026 carrying both: an economy the International Monetary Fund expects to expand faster than any other in sub-Saharan Africa, and a...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 12, 2026 | Economics
A landlocked economy does not own its own front door. Whatever Ethiopia imports — capital goods, fuel, raw materials, the inputs that keep its factories and forecourts running — arrives through ports it does not control, on terms it does not set. That dependence is...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 9, 2026 | Economics
Tax incentives are easy to announce and hard to afford. Every exemption a government grants is revenue it forgoes today against activity it hopes to attract tomorrow — a wager that the bet pays off only if the activity actually arrives. Ethiopia has now placed that...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 6, 2026 | Economics
Ethiopia does not lack ambition for industry; it lacks the serviced ground on which to build it. The country has labour, location and a domestic market of well over a hundred million people, yet investors have long stumbled on the same obstacles — unreliable...
by Yaada Magazine | Jul 3, 2026 | Economics
Africa’s largest carrier rarely struggles to fill seats; it struggles to find the metal to put them in. The global queue for wide-body aircraft now stretches years out, and slot scarcity, not customer demand, is the binding constraint on continental aviation....
