በውድድሩ ክርስቲያኖ ሮናልዶ፣ ሳሙኤል ኢቶ፣ ዴቪድ ትርስጌ፣ ላምፓርድ፣ ኢኔስታ፣ ፔርሎ፣ ካሲያስ፣ ቤካም እንዲሁም ሚርስላቭ ክሎስ ተካተው ነበር፡፡ ዘላታን ኢብራሄሞቪች የባለፈው ዓመት የወርቅ ጫማ አሸናፊ መሆኑ ይታወሳል፡፡
የታሪክ እና የባህል መረጃዎች ፣ ልዩ ልዩ አዝናኝ እና ትኩስ ወሬዎች እንዲሁም የታዋቂ እና አንጋፋ ሰዎች ግለ ህይወት እና ስራዎች ይቀርቡበታል ……
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የአፍሪካ ልማት ባንክ የኢትዮጵያን እድገት አደነቀ
የአፍሪካ ልማት
ባንክ እና
ኢትዮጵያ-ጥምረት ለሁሉን አቀፍ እድገት በሚል በቅርቡ ባወጣው ሪፖርቱ ባንኩ ሀገሪቱ የምታካሂደው ግዙፍ የመሰረተ ልማት
ግንባታና የግብርናው ዘርፍ ገበያ ተኮር መሆን ለባለ 11 በመቶው እድገት ዋነኛ ምክንያቶች እንደሆኑ ጠቅሷል፡፡ ባንኩ የመንግስት ፖሊሲ ለሁሉን አቀፍ እድገት ትልቅ ሚና እንደነበረው አመልክቶ 69 በመቶ የሚሆነው የሀገሪቱ በጀት ደሀ ተኮር በሆኑ ስራዎች ላይ ያተኮረ ነበር፡፡
የመንግስት ጥንቃቄ የተሞላበት የገንዘብ ፖሊሲ ከሁለት አመታት በፊት እስከ 40 በመቶ የነበረውን የዋጋ
ግሽበት ምጣኔ
ወደ 7.7 በመቶ
እንዳወረደው ባንኩ
በሪፖርቱ አመላክቷል፡፡ ባንኩ የሀገሪቱን የእድገትና የትራንስፎርሜሽን
እቅድን ከግምት በማስገባት ትብብሩን እንደሚቀጥል ጠቁሟል፡፡ የሀገሪቱ ሁሉን
አቀፍ እና
ቀጣይነት ያለው
እድገት ለማስመዝገብ መስራት አስተማማኝ ውጤት
እንደሚያመጣ እምነት አለኝ ያለው ባንኩ ከሀገሪቱ ጋር
ያለውን ትብብር አጠናክሮ እንደሚቀጥል አሳውቋል፡፡
ባንኩ በቅርቡ የኢትዮ ጂቡቲን የኤሌክትሪክ መስመር ዝርጋታ ፣ የኬንያ ኢትዮጵያን የኤሌክትሪክ መስመር ዝርጋታና የሞምባሳ ናይሮቢ አዲስ አበባን የመንገድ ስራ እና የገጠር ውሀ አቅርቦትና ንጽህና ፕሮግራም በፋይናንስ እየደገፈ ያለውም ከዚህ እምነቱ በመነሳት ስለመሆኑ ተናግሯል፡፡ ኢትዮጵያ ባንኩን የዛሬ 50 አመት ከተቀላቀለችበት ጊዜ
ጀምሮ የ3
ነጥብ 75 ቢሊየን ዶላር ብድርና እርዳታ ያገኘች ሲሆን ፥ ባንኩ
ከፍተኛ ብድር
ከሰጣቸው መካከል ስድስተኛዋ ሀገርም እንደሆነች ሪፖርቱ መጠቆሙን የኢሬቴድ ዘግቧል፡፡
መንግስት ለከፍተኛ ወታደራዊ መኮንኖች ከፍተኛ ሹመት ሰጠ
የኢትዮጵያ ፌደራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ መንግስት ለሀገሪቱ ከፍተኛ ወታራዊ መኮንኖች ከፍተኛ ወታደራዊ ሹመት ሰጠ፡፡በተሰጠው ከፍተኛ ወታደራዊ ሹመት 1 ሌ/ጀነራል፣6 ሜጄር ጀነራሎች እና 28 ብ/ጀነራሎች ሆነው ተሹመዋል፡፡
በተሰጠው ሹመት መሰረት፡
ሜጄር ጄነራል ዮሀንስ ገ/መስቀል ተስፋማሪያም ሌ/ጀነራል፣
1.ብ/ጀነራል ፍስሀ ኪዳኑ ፋንታ
2. ብ/ጀነራል ተስፋይ ግደይ ኃይለሚካኤል
3. ብ/ጀነራል ዮሀንስ ወ/ጀወርግስ ተስፋይ
4.ብ/ጀነራል ኢብራሂም አብዱልጀሊል መሀመድዜን
5. ብ/ጀነራል ገብረ አድሀና ወለዝጉ
6. ብ/ጀነራል ማሞ ግርማይ
ሜ/ጀነራል ሆነው የተሾሙ ሲሆን በተጨማሪም
1.ኮሎኔል አብዱራህማን እስማኤል አሎ
2. ኮሎኔል ዘነበ አማረ ወልደየሱስ
3. ኮሎኔል ዜናዊ ገ/እግዚያብሄር ደስታ
4. ኮሎኔል ሙዘይ መኮነን ተወልደ
5. ኮሎኔል ገ/እግዚያብሄር በየነ ሀይሉ
6. ኮሎኔል መሀመድ ተሰማ ገረመው
7. ኮሎኔል
እንዳልካቸው ወ/ኪዳን ደጋ
8. ኮሎኔል ኢታፋ ራጋ ሜኮ
9. ኮሎኔል ሀብታሙ ጥላሁን ሄስቤቾ
10. ኮሎኔል ጀማል
መሀመድ ብርሀን ጎጀላ
11. ኮሎኔል ገ/ገብረ መስቀል ገ/እግዚአብሄር ሀጎስ
12. ኮሎኔል ዋኘው አማረ ደሳለኝ
13. ኮሎኔል አሰፋ ቸኮለ እንዳለው
14.ኮሎኔል አማረ ገብሩ ሀይሉ
15. ኮሎኔል በላይ ስዩም አከለ
16.ኮሎኔል ደሳለኝ
ተሾመ አብተው
17.ኮሎኔል አብዱ
ከድር አልዩ
18.ኮሎኔል ሙላቱ ጀልዱ ዋቅጀራ
19.ኮሎኔል ጥጋቡ ፈትለ መረሳ
20.ኮሎኔል ተስፋይ ወ/ማሪያም ሀብቱ
21.ኮሎኔል ታደሰ
አመሎ ሲኤሶ
22.ኮሎኔል ከፍያለው አመዴ ተሰማ
23.ኮሎኔል አህመድ ሀምዛ ሙሕዩ
24.ኮሎኔል አዳምነህ መንግስቴ ገብሬ
25.ኮሎኔል ዘውዱ ኪሮስ ገ/ኪዳን
26.ኮሎኔል መሰለ መሰረት ተገኝ
27.ኮሎኔል ሰለሞን ኢተፋ ለሙ
28.ኮሎኔል ጠና ቁሩንዲ ኢጄታ ብ/ጄነራል ሆነው መሾማቸውን የጠቅላይ ሚኒስቴር
ጽ/ቤት የደረሰን መረጃ ያመለክታል፡፡
ምንጭ፦ ኢሬቴድ
ድሮግባ የወርቅ ጫማ ተሸላሚ ሆነ
ድሮግባ ይህን ሽልማት ሲያሸንፍ የመጀመሪያው አፍሪካዊ አድርጎታል፡፡በእንግሊዝ ፕሪሜርሊግ ከተጫወቱ ተጨዋቾች ደግሞ ከርያን ጊግስ ቀጥሎ የወርቅ ጫማ ሽልማቱን በማገኘት ሁለተኛው ነው፡፡
Ethiopia: continued robust economic growth, with a significant deceleration in inflation. | IMF Press Release
On September 18, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Recent macroeconomic developments are encouraging, with a
significant deceleration in inflation and continued robust economic
growth. Despite significant decline in coffee prices and supply
bottlenecks, growth remains robust, supported by better agriculture
output and construction and other services activities. Inflation
declined from the peak of 40 percent in July 2011 to around 7 percent in
June 2013. This has significantly eased the extent to which real
interest rates were negative. Pressures resulting in foreign exchange
shortages in the wake of the passing away of Prime Minister Meles have
eased.
Fiscal policy at the general government level remains prudent, with cautious execution of the government budget. Overall revenue-to-GDP ratio is estimated to fall from 14 percent in 2011/12 to 13.2 percent in 2012/13. Reflecting the strong pro-poor focus, the ratio of poverty-reducing expenditure to GDP is being maintained and non-priority expenditure will likely be compressed in 2012/13. The government budget deficit, including grants, is estimated to be 2.8 percent of GDP.
Overall fiscal stance for the consolidated public sector (including public enterprises) is likely considerably more expansionary. While appropriately consolidated data on the overall public sector finances are not available, external financing of public enterprises in 2012/13 and the monetary survey suggest that overall public sector (including public enterprises) borrowing exceeded 9 percent of GDP in 2012/13.
Although the monetary stance remains generally tight to keep inflation in single digits, recent developments point to some relaxation. Base money contracted by 4 percent in 2011/12, but by end-May 2013 expanded by 18 percent at an annual rate. The authorities adjusted slightly the base money target for the year to 13 percent from 12.2 percent. Achieving the 13 percent target implies a very tight monetary policy for the remainder of the fiscal year. The reserve requirement ratio has been further lowered recently (March 2013) from 10 percent to 5 percent, following an earlier (January 2012) lowering by 5 percentage points, and the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) sterilized the resulting liquidity injection through the sale of certificate deposits. Broad money growth remains on the high side and was 28 percent in 2012/13.
The external current account deficit widened slightly to US$3 billion in 2012/13 from US$2.8 billion in 2011/12, reflecting a weaker trade balance, although it improved as a ratio of GDP from 6.6 percent to 6.4 percent. Export performance suffered from a decline in prices and weak external demand conditions, growing only 3.2 percent (in nominal terms), while continued infrastructure and industrial investment and higher fuel importation contributed to an increase in imports by 6.3 percent. Transfers brought in a net inflow of around US$5 billion due to a surge in net private transfers that more than offset a decline in official transfers. Increased loan disbursements to the central government and public enterprises yielded a capital account surplus of US$3.4 billion. The NBE’s gross international reserves declined slightly to US$2.2 billion (1.8 months of imports) at the end of 2012/13 from US$2.3 billion (1.9 months of imports) at the end of 2011/12.
Foreign exchange supply came under pressure in the first half of 2012/13. The passing of Prime Minister Meles created uncertainty and excess demand in the foreign exchange market which was also reflected in a widening of the premium in the parallel market. Since its previous peak in October 2008, the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) reached the highest level in November 2012, although this has started to turn around with the recent decline in inflation.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors commended the authorities for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s strong growth performance and impressive progress in decreasing poverty and inequality under the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). Prudent macroeconomic management has ensured a significant deceleration in inflation. Going forward, Directors agreed that the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s public-sector-led strategy needs to be recalibrated, with greater participation by the private sector to sustain robust and inclusive growth and mitigate vulnerabilities. They emphasized the importance of policies to maintain fiscal sustainability, preserve low inflation, rebuild external buffers, and improve financial intermediation and the business environment.
Directors welcomed the authorities’ prudent budgetary stance, but underscored the need to gain a fuller picture of public enterprises’ finances and to pace public investments appropriately. Sustaining pro-poor expenditures will require increased domestic revenue, and Directors therefore encouraged the authorities to continue the momentum of revenue administration and tax policy reforms. Further public financial management reforms as well as a medium-term debt management strategy would also help maintain fiscal sustainability and achieve the fiscal objectives under the GTP.
Directors agreed that a continued cautious monetary stance is warranted to preserve low inflation. They underscored the importance of improving the efficiency and flexibility of monetary policy instruments, including through greater flexibility of nominal interest rates and the development of market-based liquidity management. Directors called for better coordination between exchange rate and monetary policies and for greater exchange rate flexibility to help reconstitute foreign exchange reserves, strengthen competitiveness, and eliminate the spread between the parallel and official rates.
Directors noted that the banking sector remains well-capitalized and profitable. They stressed the need to carefully monitor concentration of large exposures to single entities, and for strengthened capacity to ensure effective financial sector supervision and regulation. Directors encouraged policies to improve the private sector’s access to finance and promote financial inclusion. In particular, phasing out the directive requiring commercial banks to hold low-yield central bank bills would facilitate financial deepening. They also encouraged the authorities to address the remaining deficiencies in the Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism regime.
Directors underscored the transformational power of the private sector, which can be further harnessed to generate employment and sustain development. Accordingly, they advised the authorities to enhance competitiveness and attract Foreign Direct Investment by improving the business climate and fostering competition.
Directors acknowledged recent improvements in GDP statistics. They encouraged the authorities to make further efforts to improve data quality, particularly financial sector, fiscal and balance-of-payments statistics, with support from the International Monetary Fund technical assistance.
Full Press Release: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2013/pr13407.htm
Fiscal policy at the general government level remains prudent, with cautious execution of the government budget. Overall revenue-to-GDP ratio is estimated to fall from 14 percent in 2011/12 to 13.2 percent in 2012/13. Reflecting the strong pro-poor focus, the ratio of poverty-reducing expenditure to GDP is being maintained and non-priority expenditure will likely be compressed in 2012/13. The government budget deficit, including grants, is estimated to be 2.8 percent of GDP.
Overall fiscal stance for the consolidated public sector (including public enterprises) is likely considerably more expansionary. While appropriately consolidated data on the overall public sector finances are not available, external financing of public enterprises in 2012/13 and the monetary survey suggest that overall public sector (including public enterprises) borrowing exceeded 9 percent of GDP in 2012/13.
Although the monetary stance remains generally tight to keep inflation in single digits, recent developments point to some relaxation. Base money contracted by 4 percent in 2011/12, but by end-May 2013 expanded by 18 percent at an annual rate. The authorities adjusted slightly the base money target for the year to 13 percent from 12.2 percent. Achieving the 13 percent target implies a very tight monetary policy for the remainder of the fiscal year. The reserve requirement ratio has been further lowered recently (March 2013) from 10 percent to 5 percent, following an earlier (January 2012) lowering by 5 percentage points, and the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) sterilized the resulting liquidity injection through the sale of certificate deposits. Broad money growth remains on the high side and was 28 percent in 2012/13.
The external current account deficit widened slightly to US$3 billion in 2012/13 from US$2.8 billion in 2011/12, reflecting a weaker trade balance, although it improved as a ratio of GDP from 6.6 percent to 6.4 percent. Export performance suffered from a decline in prices and weak external demand conditions, growing only 3.2 percent (in nominal terms), while continued infrastructure and industrial investment and higher fuel importation contributed to an increase in imports by 6.3 percent. Transfers brought in a net inflow of around US$5 billion due to a surge in net private transfers that more than offset a decline in official transfers. Increased loan disbursements to the central government and public enterprises yielded a capital account surplus of US$3.4 billion. The NBE’s gross international reserves declined slightly to US$2.2 billion (1.8 months of imports) at the end of 2012/13 from US$2.3 billion (1.9 months of imports) at the end of 2011/12.
Foreign exchange supply came under pressure in the first half of 2012/13. The passing of Prime Minister Meles created uncertainty and excess demand in the foreign exchange market which was also reflected in a widening of the premium in the parallel market. Since its previous peak in October 2008, the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) reached the highest level in November 2012, although this has started to turn around with the recent decline in inflation.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors commended the authorities for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s strong growth performance and impressive progress in decreasing poverty and inequality under the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). Prudent macroeconomic management has ensured a significant deceleration in inflation. Going forward, Directors agreed that the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s public-sector-led strategy needs to be recalibrated, with greater participation by the private sector to sustain robust and inclusive growth and mitigate vulnerabilities. They emphasized the importance of policies to maintain fiscal sustainability, preserve low inflation, rebuild external buffers, and improve financial intermediation and the business environment.
Directors welcomed the authorities’ prudent budgetary stance, but underscored the need to gain a fuller picture of public enterprises’ finances and to pace public investments appropriately. Sustaining pro-poor expenditures will require increased domestic revenue, and Directors therefore encouraged the authorities to continue the momentum of revenue administration and tax policy reforms. Further public financial management reforms as well as a medium-term debt management strategy would also help maintain fiscal sustainability and achieve the fiscal objectives under the GTP.
Directors agreed that a continued cautious monetary stance is warranted to preserve low inflation. They underscored the importance of improving the efficiency and flexibility of monetary policy instruments, including through greater flexibility of nominal interest rates and the development of market-based liquidity management. Directors called for better coordination between exchange rate and monetary policies and for greater exchange rate flexibility to help reconstitute foreign exchange reserves, strengthen competitiveness, and eliminate the spread between the parallel and official rates.
Directors noted that the banking sector remains well-capitalized and profitable. They stressed the need to carefully monitor concentration of large exposures to single entities, and for strengthened capacity to ensure effective financial sector supervision and regulation. Directors encouraged policies to improve the private sector’s access to finance and promote financial inclusion. In particular, phasing out the directive requiring commercial banks to hold low-yield central bank bills would facilitate financial deepening. They also encouraged the authorities to address the remaining deficiencies in the Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism regime.
Directors underscored the transformational power of the private sector, which can be further harnessed to generate employment and sustain development. Accordingly, they advised the authorities to enhance competitiveness and attract Foreign Direct Investment by improving the business climate and fostering competition.
Directors acknowledged recent improvements in GDP statistics. They encouraged the authorities to make further efforts to improve data quality, particularly financial sector, fiscal and balance-of-payments statistics, with support from the International Monetary Fund technical assistance.
Full Press Release: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2013/pr13407.htm
Friday, October 18, 2013
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