{"id":437175,"date":"2019-04-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiY2h0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vZmluYW5jZS9ldGhpb3BpYS1sYXVuY2hlcy1zdHVkeS10by1saWJlcmFsaXplLWl0cy1maW5hbmNpYWwtc3lzdGVtL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:08","slug":"ethiopia-launches-a-study-to-liberalize-its-financial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/437175","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia launches a study to liberalize its financial system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early April 2019, business outlets reported that Ethiopia had launched a formal study into <strong>liberalizing its financial system<\/strong>\u2014a signal that Addis Ababa was preparing, at least on paper, to open space long dominated by state and domestic banks.<\/p>\n<p><img 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%2C390&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia launches a study to liberalize its financial system\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For an economy chronically short of foreign exchange and hungry for investment, financial opening has always been a double-edged promise: more capital and competition on one side, fears about currency stability, local bank capacity, and who captures the upside on the other.<\/p>\n<p>The study announcement belongs in the research file on Ethiopia\u2019s partial market reforms. Later debates on telecom, logistics, and banking entry all sit in the same lineage: how far Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government would go from command-era controls without losing political grip over credit and hard currency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/finance\/ethiopia-launches-study-to-liberalize-its-financial-system\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nbe.gov.et\/\">National Bank of Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia launches study to liberalize its financial system \u2013 New &#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business Ethiopia<\/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-437175","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-1PJd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437175","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=437175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600506,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437175\/revisions\/600506"}],"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=437175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}