- Sunday, December 7, 2008, 0:40
- Business, Crousel, Domestic Affairs, Featured
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Ethiopia, a country of chronic food shortages and malnutrition, has launched an agriculture commodity exchange in a daring experiment to raise food production by creating a safe, transparent agriculture market.
The idea to create a commodity exchange was hatched by a former senior economist at the World Bank, Eleni Gabre-Madhin, who was born ...
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- Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 17:15
- Crousel, Sports
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Ethiopia remains banned from international football after the failure of talks aimed at resolving the dispute which has split the country's football federation (EFF).
Football's world governing body Fifa invited both sides, plus the Ethiopian government, to the talks.
Fifa says the government pulled out at the last minute and that "no solution" was found.
Ethiopia was ...
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- Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 1:43
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Nov. 24 (
Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s annual inflation rate declined to 55.4 percent in October from 59.6 percent in September, the Central Statistical Agency said.
Food prices increased by 72.3 percent, slower than the annualized rate of 80.9 percent in September, the Addis-Ababa- based agency said in a statement on its website ...
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