{"id":278050,"date":"2019-06-05T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBWlUgeMAqad6kOhBBeY-D8qFwgEKg8IACoHCAow-4fWBzD4z0gw8tp6?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:38","slug":"the-financial-times-said-abiy-ahmed-turned-to-young-technocrats-for-the-reform-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278050","title":{"rendered":"The Financial Times said Abiy Ahmed turned to young technocrats for the reform drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 the Financial Times reported that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had broken with Ethiopian tradition by appointing young technocrats with international experience to key economic posts.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Financial Times said Abiy Ahmed turned to young technocrats for the reform drive\" \/>\n<p>The story framed the appointments as part of an ambitious reform drive that needed people who could speak the language of markets and donors, even as older political networks still held power in many places.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the FT feature dates the early Abiy-era bet on a younger economic management class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/38c9e736-7e49-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia looks to young technocrats to lead ambitious reform drive&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial TimesPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed has broken with tradition in Ethiopia by appointing young technocrats with international experience to important economic jobs as he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"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-278050","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\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1akG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278050","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=278050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755044,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278050\/revisions\/755044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}