{"id":279347,"date":"2019-06-18T22:16:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T02:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZpdGNoc29sdXRpb25zLmNvbS9jb3Jwb3JhdGVzL2V0aGlvcGlhLWVtZXJnZS1rZXktbGlnaHQtbWFudWZhY3R1cmluZy1odWItc3NhLTE4LTA2LTIwMTnSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:44","slug":"fitch-solutions-said-ethiopia-was-emerging-as-a-key-light-manufacturing-hub-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279347","title":{"rendered":"Fitch Solutions said Ethiopia was emerging as a key light-manufacturing hub in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 June 2019 Fitch Solutions argued that Ethiopia was becoming one of Sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s preferred destinations for labour-intensive business, especially garment and related light manufacturing.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fitch Solutions said Ethiopia was emerging as a key light-manufacturing hub in Africa\" \/>\n<p>The key-view note linked industrial-park policy, wage levels, and market access to a wider shift of factory investment toward Ethiopia inside the region\u2019s manufacturing map.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as business-analysis archive, the Fitch Solutions brief dates a mid-2019 investor reading of Ethiopia\u2019s light-manufacturing role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitchsolutions.com\/corporates\/ethiopia-emerge-key-light-manufacturing-hub-ssa-18-06-2019\">Fitch Solutions<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia To Emerge As A Key Light-Manufacturing Hub In SSA&nbsp;&nbsp;Fitch SolutionsKey View. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia is emerging as one of the preferred destinations for labour-intensive businesses, especially those in the garment and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"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-279347","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\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aFB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279347","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=279347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755272,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279347\/revisions\/755272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}