DFID research: Rethinking business and politics in Ethiopia: The role of EFFORT, the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray
The Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) has released Research report 2, by Sarah Vaughan and Mesfin Gebremichael.
Ethiopia has shown increasingly impressive economic growth since 1991. In practice, Ethiopia바카라 사이트™s ruling EPRDF government retains control of a large proportion of available sources of rents and economic levers, including large state-owned enterprises and so-called 바카라 사이트˜endowment-owned바카라 사이트™ businesses.
The new report from the DFID-funded Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP), Research Report 2, , studies the role of private enterprise in Ethiopia바카라 사이트™s economic development, focusing on endowment-owned companies under EFFORT, the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray. Established with resources from the Tigray People바카라 사이트™s Liberation Front, EFFORT owns 16 companies across a range of sectors, while its corporate policy is still led by senior TPLF members. In Tigray State, many EFFORT-owned businesses have become profitable only relatively recently, but constitute a major employer and a significant patron of public goods and humanitarian causes. They are also by far the largest regional taxpayer to the 바카라 사이트, providing 60% of its regionally-generated revenues.
The paper was written by , Honorary Fellow, School of Social & Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and Mesfin Gebremichael, Addis Ababa University, Institute for Peace and Security Studies. It forms part of APPP바카라 사이트™s Business and Politics research stream.