{"id":278475,"date":"2019-06-09T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVGh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZXRoaW9waWEtYXBwcm92ZXMtMTMtNS1iaWxsaW9uLWJ1ZGdldC1mb3ItbmV4dC15ZWFyL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:20","slug":"ethiopias-council-of-ministers-approved-a-roughly-13-5-billion-budget-for-the-next-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278475","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s Council of Ministers approved a roughly $13.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that the Council of Ministers had announced a national budget of about 387 billion birr, roughly $13.5 billion, for the coming Ethiopian fiscal year.<\/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=\"Ethiopia\u2019s Council of Ministers approved a roughly $13.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year\" \/>\n<p>The budget figure set the public spending envelope for a government still promising reforms while facing debt, drought costs, and security spending, so it remains a basic fiscal reference for that year.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as fiscal and economy archive, the New Business Ethiopia report dates the mid-2019 approval of Ethiopia\u2019s $13.5 billion budget plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopia-approves-13-5-billion-budget-for-next-year\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia approves $13.5 billion budget for next year&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaThe Council of Ministers of Ethiopia on Saturday announced 387 billion birr (around $13.5 billion) national budget for the next Ethiopian fiscal year which begins &#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-278475","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-1arx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278475","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=278475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755085,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278475\/revisions\/755085"}],"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=278475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}