Since 2000, when Ethiopia had one of the highest poverty rates in the world, households have experienced a decade of remarkable progress in well-being and the country has seen a 33 percent reduction ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia January 20, 2015- Agricultural growth was the main driver of poverty reduction in Ethiopia since 2000, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Poverty Assessment. Poverty in ...

Ethiopia's economy has grown at an annual rate of nearly 10 percent for the last seven years. But a third of the population still lives below the poverty line. Samuel Bwalya is the economic ...

This leads to increased food insecurity and prevalence of poverty in the urban areas. The urban population of Ethiopia has been projected to increase two folds in recent years (MOFED). Urban ...

It wasn’t until 2011 that then Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced plans for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as part of the country’s ambitious plan to leap from extreme poverty to ...

with its “Poverty Over” publicity campaign. Gill looks in some depth at what the real effects have been on the ground in Ethiopia, over the past twenty-five years, of all these well-meaning ...

Ethiopia is thought to have the most donkeys in the world – one in five of the global total according to the United Nations – ...

ADDIS ABABA - Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has unveiled Ethiopia's renewed diplomatic vision, aiming to elevate the country's role in international affairs through a more assertive and independent ...

A three-time Irish Olympian and a top New York influencer have helped to fight "abject poverty" in Ethiopia by taking on the world's highest elevation road race. Eamonn Coghlan, the record ...