{"id":278223,"date":"2019-06-07T03:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=278223"},"modified":"2019-06-07T03:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:50:28","slug":"finance-minister-ahmed-shide-expresses-concern-over-ethiopian-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278223","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Ahmed Shide expresses concern over Ethiopian economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jQeRUcOuIBk<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Index of Economic Freedom ranks Ethiopia as the 26th among 47 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and its overall score is below the regional and world averages. The country&#8217;s economy has been challenged due to the on-going political unrest. From foreign currency shortage to accumulated debts, the economy&#8217;s sustainability is questionable. The government persists in encouraging the private sector&#8217;s participation in transforming the economy. Ahmed Shide, Minister of Finance appointed by PM Abiy Ahmed, expresses concern on the progression of Ethiopia&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jQeRUcOuIBk The 2019 Index of Economic Freedom ranks Ethiopia as the 26th among 47 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and its overall score is below the regional and world averages. The country&#8217;s economy has been challenged due to the on-going political unrest. From foreign currency shortage to accumulated debts, the economy&#8217;s sustainability is questionable. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":278240,"comment_status":"open","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":[4928,1051,1157,4927,4921],"class_list":["post-278223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ahmed-shide","tag-economy","tag-ethiopian-news-2","tag-finance","tag-pm-abiy-ahmed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Finance-Minister-Ahmed-Shide-expresses-concern-over-Ethiopian-economy.jpg?fit=1200%2C673&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ant","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278223","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278241,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278223\/revisions\/278241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}