{"id":276324,"date":"2019-05-18T02:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T06:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiY2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvaG91c2UtcmV2aWV3cy1idXNpbmVzcy1yZWdpc3RyYXRpb24tbGljZW5zaW5nLWFtZW5kbWVudNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:38","slug":"parliament-reviewed-a-bill-to-amend-commercial-registration-and-business-licensing-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276324","title":{"rendered":"Parliament reviewed a bill to amend commercial registration and business licensing rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 May 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia reported that lawmakers were reviewing a bill to amend the Commercial Registration and Business Licensing Proclamation as part of a wider effort to ease the business environment.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parliament reviewed a bill to amend commercial registration and business licensing rules\" \/>\n<p>Registration and licensing rules decide how fast firms can open, how many offices they must visit, and how much room remains for rent-seeking. Reform talk under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early economic team often started with this kind of paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the amendment later cut real delays is a separate empirical question. The parliamentary review itself is still a dated policy fact for researchers of Ethiopian private-sector regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as business policy archive, the bill file sits with other 2019 measures that tried to unlock investment while foreign exchange and politics remained binding constraints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/house-reviews-business-registration-licensing-amendment\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House reviews business registration, licensing amendment&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaIn a bid to reform the business environment in Ethiopia, a new bill has been proposed to amend the existing Commercial Registration and Business Licensing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"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-276324","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\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19SQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276324","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754803,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276324\/revisions\/754803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}