{"id":279441,"date":"2019-06-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhLWluc2lnaHQuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTAvZnJvbS1tZWxlcy1kZWFkLWVuZC10by1hYml5cy1uZXctaG9yaXpvbi_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:28","slug":"ethiopia-insight-compared-meles-zenawis-developmental-state-to-abiy-ahmeds-new-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279441","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Insight compared Meles Zenawi\u2019s developmental state to Abiy Ahmed\u2019s \u201cnew horizon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 William Davison wrote for Ethiopia Insight that after Meles Zenawi\u2019s authoritarian developmental model hit hard limits, Ethiopia needed an equally serious democratic approach to escaping poverty, even while freedom brought its own constraints.<\/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=\"Ethiopia Insight compared Meles Zenawi\u2019s developmental state to Abiy Ahmed\u2019s \u201cnew horizon\u201d\" \/>\n<p>The essay recalled Meles at the 2012 World Economic Forum defending public infrastructure investment and dismissing simple claims that democracy automatically produces growth, then set that record against Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform language about opening politics and markets.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics analysis archive, the Insight essay dates a major mid-2019 attempt to measure Abiy\u2019s opening against the Meles developmental-state inheritance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopia-insight.com\/2019\/06\/10\/from-meles-dead-end-to-abiys-new-horizon\/\">Ethiopia Insight<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Meles&#8217; &#8216;Dead End&#8217; to Abiy&#8217;s &#8216;New Horizon&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethiopia InsightAfter authoritarian development hit the rocks, Ethiopia needs a concerted democratic approach to escaping poverty. But freedom has its own constraints.<\/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-279441","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-1aH7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279441","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=279441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755088,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279441\/revisions\/755088"}],"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=279441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}