{"id":222569,"date":"2018-06-19T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=b847f99238f4a6408c11a45fa9648a9e"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:13:19","slug":"national-bank-of-ethiopia-gets-a-new-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/222569","title":{"rendered":"National Bank of Ethiopia gets a new governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Yinager Dessie, who previously served as head of the National Planning Commission, has been appointed as governor of Ethiopia&#8217;s central bank, the National Bank of Ethiopia, on Monday, replacing Teklewold Atnafu who has been named finance advisor to the Prime Minister. Finance advisor? Isn&#8217;t it under his watch that the central bank went bankrupt? <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yinager-Dessie-governor-of-National-Bank-of-Ethiopia.jpg?resize=780%2C506&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yinager-Dessie-governor-of-National-Bank-of-Ethiopia.jpg?w=782&amp;ssl=1 782w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yinager-Dessie-governor-of-National-Bank-of-Ethiopia.jpg?resize=768%2C498&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yinager-Dessie-governor-of-National-Bank-of-Ethiopia.jpg?resize=640%2C415&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new governor&#8217;s biggest challenge will be finding solutions for the current hard currency shortage that is suffocating Ethiopia&#8217;s economy. <\/p>\n<p>Despite recommendations by economists, Ethiopia&#8217;s government has so far resisted opening up the banking sector to foreign investors, which could have helped develop a competent capital market. Perhaps the new governor will give the idea a fresh look. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Yinager Dessie, who previously served as head of the National Planning Commission, has been appointed as governor of Ethiopia&#8217;s central bank, the National Bank of Ethiopia, on Monday, replacing Teklewold Atnafu who has been named finance advisor to the Prime Minister. Finance advisor? Isn&#8217;t it under his watch that the central bank went bankrupt? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yinager-Dessie-governor-of-National-Bank-of-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=782%2C507&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-VTP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222698,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222569\/revisions\/222698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}