Addis Standard asked whether Ethiopia’s developmental state was dead or alive

In May 2019 Addis Standard published an economic analysis by Belachew Mekuria asking whether Ethiopia’s developmental-state model was finished or merely changing under Abiy Ahmed.

The essay weighed a country of more than 100 million people that had chased state-led industrialization, industrial parks, and mega-projects, against reform talk about markets, privatization, and political opening.

Debates about the developmental state still shape how Ethiopians argue over banks, SOEs, and FDI, so the May 2019 piece is a useful dated intervention.

Kept as economics archive, the Addis Standard analysis marks one expert attempt to rename Ethiopia’s growth model in the early Abiy years.

Sources: Addis Standard