የኢትዮዽያውያን ዴሞክራቶች ድረ-ገፅEthiopian Democrats' Website

May 2012

On 5 May 2012, members of the Africa Liberal Network (The Network) from across East Africa and the Horn of Africa met in the historic city of Addis Ababa at the invitation of the Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP). Together, they came to agree a draft Liberal Manifesto for Africa based on their parties’ own guiding principles. This document sets out twenty proposals to implement those principles.

The delegates included representatives from th...

Mr Mushe Semu ,President of Ethiopian Democratic Party, announced that his party will host a three day international meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel , from 5th May to 7th of May 2012. The meeting will involve eight nations and experts from the United kingdom Liberal Democratic party. The aim of the meeting, is to develop Democracy, Liberalism and the development of a Liberal Manifesto for Africa.

Dr David Hall- Mathews chairman of policy work group and Mr Christain Moon, head of...

Source - Ethiopian Democratic Party

Deputy Leader of Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP), Mrs Sophia visited the United Kingdom as a guest of British Liberal Democrat Party, who form part of the coalition government of United Kingdom.

During her visit, Mrs Sophia has been able to explain t...

Source: Addis Fortune;

It is only liberal democracy that can rekindle the hope for a better future in Ethiopia, argues Mersea Kidan - mersea.kidan@gmail.com - a postgraduate student of systems engineering and technology management in the United States. The responsibility of implanting liberal ideology lies on the shoulders of the young generation of Ethiopians, he deduces in the second part of his two-part commentary.

Dying Democratic Hope Mu...

Source: Reporter;

In a discussion held on March 2 on a draft regulation prepared by the Ministry of Urban Development and Construction to implement the new Urban Land Lease Holding Proclamation No. 721/2011, it was indicated that though the law is not applicable to old possessions, they are likely to be converted into lease holding despite a recent assurance by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the contrary. According to the proclamation, which has been confusing for many, the modality of ...

Source: Reporter;

With its effects still being felt in the economy, it is not at all a distant memory how the devaluation of the birr against the relatively mighty dollar by a record 16.7 percent promptly shook the market and, unlike never before, drew the attention of economists in particular and the general public in general. It was on the next day of the unprecedented move by policy makers that the country’s giant air and sea transport providers, Ethiopian Airlines and Ethiopia...

Source: Reporter;

After a five-day evaluation session of the Council of the Addis Ababa City Administration, the administration’s general manager and five other senior land administration officials were sacked. Sources told The Reporter that the officials were removed because of alleged corruption. However, the administration disclosed that the officials were sacked due to inefficiency and underperformance.

During the evaluation that was chaired by the mayor of...

Source: Fortune;

Changing the way of doing politics in Ethiopia is vital since the traditional way of doing politics has resulted only in destruction and instability, argues Mersea Kidan - mersea.kidan@gmail.com - a postgraduate student of systems engineering and technology management in the United States. It is upon the new generation that the hope for a better future lies, he reckons in the first part of his two-part commentary.

Ato Mushe Semu EDP Leader Held an Important Meeting with British EDP Support Committee.

EDP leader Ato Mushe Semu held a meeting with United Kingdom EDP Supporters. In a meeting which took an hour and half, Ato Mushe covered many areas of activity EDP has been undertaking and its work schedule for the coming months.

In a remarkable message, Ato Mushe informed members of EDP supporters in Great Britain wide ranging activities so far completed.

Among the activiti...

Building Institutions to Ensure Sustainable Growth

By: Abis Getachew Makuria:  abisgetachew@yahoo.com

Though there are different factors that determine the economic growth, economists agree that huge capital accumulation is the source of economic growth in the proximate growth models. Some countries are able to attract massive capital while others fail to do so. According to the principles of fundamental sources of growth, political...

The years after the great depression of the 1930s were dominated by Keynesian economic thinking, which suggests that there must be a continuous increase in the level of inflation in order to achieve economic growth and, hence, to reduce unemployment. In other words, there exists a positive long-term relationship between inflation and economic growth.

However, this thinking was questioned by monetarists in the early 1970s when inflation could not reduce the level of unemployment. Inflati...

Source: Fortune;

Dear editors,

If we compare Ethiopia and the United States in living standards, sampling mansions of Bole District in Ethiopia and shanties on the south side of Chicago in the US, we might end up concluding that Ethiopia has a better living standard. Such was Getachew Alemu’s comparison of efficiencies of the state and the private sector in his opinion piece headlined, “Where Government Supersedes” (Volume 12, Number 609, December

31, 2011)...

by Jawar Mohammed

Earlier this week, one of the several OLF factions announced that it had adapted a new political program that apparently drops the ‘secessionist’ agenda. This announcement was preceded and followed by hyped fanfare by Ginbot 7 and its affiliates.

The news had excited a segment of Ethiopia’s political community long haunted by the prospect of an independent Oromia state and those democracy activists who wish to see coope...