{"id":278699,"date":"2019-06-11T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMS9ldGhpb3BpYS1zaG91bGQtcmVzaXN0LXRoZS1uZW9saWJlcmFsLXNob2NrLXRoZXJhcHktdGViZWplLW1vbGxhLXBoZC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:26","slug":"tebeje-molla-warned-that-fast-privatization-under-political-shock-risked-neoliberal-shock-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278699","title":{"rendered":"Tebeje Molla warned that fast privatization under political shock risked neoliberal \u201cshock therapy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 June 2019 Borkena carried a commentary by Tebeje Molla arguing that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s pledge to fully or partially privatize Ethio Telecom, Ethiopian Electric Power, Ethiopian Airlines, and Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics should be read against Naomi Klein\u2019s \u201cshock doctrine,\u201d because deep reforms pushed during political turmoil can favor outside corporate agendas.<\/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=\"Tebeje Molla warned that fast privatization under political shock risked neoliberal \u201cshock therapy\u201d\" \/>\n<p>Molla said parliament was about to liberalize major state firms after years of developmental-state policy under Meles Zenawi, and he argued that opening those assets under fear and urgency could lock in lasting economic choices before a stable political settlement existed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics and economy analysis archive, the Borkena commentary dates a critical Ethiopian academic warning about privatization sequencing in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/11\/ethiopia-should-resist-the-neoliberal-shock-therapy\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Should Resist the Neoliberal &#8216;Shock Therapy&#8217; (Tebeje Molla, PhD)&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comPM Abiy Ahmed administration is privatizing key state assets in Ethiopia like Ethiopian Airlines to &#8220;investors&#8221; in the name of liberalization. Read more.<\/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-278699","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-1av9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278699","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=278699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755134,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278699\/revisions\/755134"}],"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=278699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}