{"id":277383,"date":"2019-05-29T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=7c235a7cbed24b830251cb8fc60a1750"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:56","slug":"addis-standard-asked-whether-ethiopias-developmental-state-was-dead-or-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277383","title":{"rendered":"Addis Standard asked whether Ethiopia\u2019s developmental state was dead or alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Addis Standard published an economic analysis by Belachew Mekuria asking whether Ethiopia\u2019s developmental-state model was finished or merely changing under Abiy Ahmed.<\/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=\"Addis Standard asked whether Ethiopia\u2019s developmental state was dead or alive\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as economics archive, the Addis Standard analysis marks one expert attempt to rename Ethiopia\u2019s growth model in the early Abiy years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/economic-analysis-ethiopias-developmental-state-dead-or-alive\/\">Addis Standard<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic Analysis: Ethiopia\u2019s Developmental State: Dead or Alive?&nbsp;&nbsp;addisstandard.comBelachew Mekuria, PhD, For Addis Standard. Addis Abeba, May 29\/2019 \u2013 Ethiopia, a country of over 100 million people, the second most populous country in &#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-277383","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-1a9V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277383","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=277383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754958,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277383\/revisions\/754958"}],"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=277383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}