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	Economy of Ethiopia
		Ethiopia's economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 90% of exports[?], and 80% of total employment.
		Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, and poor infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market.
		Of the 23,812 kilometers of Ethiopia's all-weather roads, 15% are asphalt.
	www.fastload.org /ec/Economy_of_Ethiopia.html (712 words)

	country insights > region: africa > ethiopia > economy @ globalEDGE
		The Ethiopian economy is based on agriculture, which contributes 47% to GNP and more than 80% of exports, and employs 85% of the population.
		Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by inappropriate agricultural practices and overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, undeveloped water resources, and poor transport infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market.
		Ethiopia is connected with the port of Djibouti by road and rail for international trade.
	globaledge.msu.edu /countryInsights/economy.asp?countryID=92®ionID=5 (0 words)

	Ethiopia Economy
		The Ethiopian economy is based on agriculture, which contributes 47% to GNP and more than 80% of exports, and employs 85% of the population.
		Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by inappropriate agricultural practices and overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, undeveloped water resources, and poor transport infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market.
		Ethiopia is connected with the port of Djibouti by road and rail for international trade.
	www.traveldocs.com /et/economy.htm (559 words)

	Economy of Ethiopia, Culture of Ethiopia, Ethiopia History, Ethiopia Flag, History of Ethiopia
		Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, and the three main colors of her flag were so often adopted by other African countries upon independence that they became known as the pan-African colors.
		The economy of Ethiopia is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of the GDP, 85% of exports and 80% of total employment.
		Under Ethiopia's land tenure system, the government owns all land and provides long-term leases to the tenants; but this system continues to hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as collateral for loans.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/ethiopia1.html (423 words)

	Economy of Ethiopia
		The economy of Ethiopia is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of gross domestic product (GDP), 90% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, and poor infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market.
		Of the 23,812 kilometres of Ethiopia's all-weather roads, 15% are asphalt.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/ec/economy_of_ethiopia.html (704 words)

	Ethiopia ECONOMY
		Ethiopia's economy has undergone major reforms since May 1991, when a market-oriented government came to power.
		Ethiopia produces gold and has additional undeveloped deposits of platinum, marble, tantalite, copper, potash, salt, soda ash, zinc, nickel, and iron.
		The World Bank granted Ethiopia $450 million for post-war reconstruction, and the EU was an equally large contributor of development aid in 2003.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Ethiopia-ECONOMY.html (356 words)

	Coffee History, Production, Economy - Ethiopia
		Ethiopia is the primary centre of origin and genetic diversity of the Arabica coffee plant, earlier known as jasminum arabicum laurifolia.
		With coffee thus a commodity crop earlier than 1500, Ethiopia is the oldest coffee exporter in the world, though external invasions and internal conflicts have at times had a negative impact on the country's coffee export history.
		The soils in the southern and western parts of the coffee-growing regions of Ethiopia are of volcanic origin, with a high nutrient-holding capacity for clay minerals.
	www.treecrops.org /country/ethiopia_coffee.asp (1844 words)

	Tour Ethiopia \|Travel Ethopia
		It leis in the equatorial region between 30 - 180 north and 330 - 480 east, Eritrea and Djibouti bound in on the northeast, on the east and southeast by Somalia, on the south by Kenya and on the west by the Sudan.
		Ethiopia is considered to be the' mosaic of cultural diversity.
		Agriculture is the backbone of the national economy and the principal exports from this sector are coffee, oil seeds, pulses, flowers, vegetables, sugar and foodstuffs for animals.
	www.rohatours.com /aboutus/faq.htm (0 words)

	Economy of Ethiopia
		The Ethiopian economy is based on agriculture, which contributes 45% to GNP and more than 80% of exports and employs 85% of the population.
		Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, and poor infrastructure, making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market.
		Of the 23,812 kilometers of Ethiopia's all-weather roads, 15% are asphalt.
	motherearthtravel.com /ethiopia/economy.htm (510 words)

	Ethiopia History \| iExplore.com
		Although Ethiopia was indeed a Christian kingdom (Ethiopian Coptic) and had been for many centuries, it never fulfilled the expectations of Western Christendom, by failing to be a staunch ally of Rome in the struggle against the infidel.
		Ethiopia was known to be unhappy with Eritrea’s introduction of its own currency in 1997; Eritrea may have harbored fears that its independence was under threat from Ethiopia.
		Ethiopia has been in need of food aid for some years and distribution to the most needy and remote areas was disrupted by the fighting.
	www.africa.com /dmap/Ethiopia/History (1241 words)

	Globalization of the Internet- by: Josh Weinberg {Ethiopia} (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Currently, eighty percent of Ethiopia’s economy is based on agriculture, and that sector is constantly afflicted with droughts.
		Ethiopia was trying to reshape itself as evidenced by the first ever multiparty elections in 1995, and the implementation of a constitution in 1994, but the war and drought have taken tremendous tolls on Ethiopia.
		Mohamed knows the importance of the U.N. to Ethiopia, and he wrote, "The United Nations… have a pivotal role not only in facilitating or complementing the efforts of concerned parties, but also in ensuring respect for the norms and principles of international law." The U.N.’s role is mitigated without a powerful secretary general.
	www.yu.edu /yunmun/Archives/yunmun_XI/Papers/gp/ethiopia.htm (618 words)

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		Ethiopia's economy is 54.4 percent free, according to our 2007 assessment, which makes it the world's 116th freest economy.
		Ethiopia is ranked 21st out of 40 countries in the sub-Saharan Africa region, and its overall score is equal to the regional average.
		Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa and also one of the poorest.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Ethiopia (933 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The economy of Ethiopia is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of gross domestic product (GDP), 60% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		Ethiopia's agriculture is plagued by periodic drought, soil degradation caused by overgrazing, deforestation, high population density, high levels of taxation and poor infrastructure (making it difficult and expensive to get goods to market).
		Ethiopia currently uses the ports of Djibouti, connected to Addis Ababa by rail, and to a lesser extent, Port Sudan in Sudan.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=economy_of_Ethiopia (0 words)

	Economy of Ethiopia
		Ethiopia's poverty-stricken economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 85% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		Under Ethiopia's land tenure system, the government owns all land and provides long-term leases to the tenants; the system continues to hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as collateral for loans.
		Despite this limitation, strong growth is expected to continue in the near term as good rainfall, the cessation of hostilities, and renewed foreign aid and debt relief push the economy forward.
	www.fhi.net /fhius/ethiopiafamine/economy.html (0 words)

	Ethiopia: ECONOMY
		Ethiopia is home to an estimated 7 million pastoralists who tend a large number of livestock—a survey in 2003 counted 35 million cattle, 25 million sheep, and 18 million goats.
		Christians are being increasingly attacked and murdered by Muslim extremists in Ethiopia as political and religious tension rise in the region, according to a...
		Ethiopia's health authorities are calling it acute watery diarrhoea and are still trying to establish whether the epidemic is in fact cholera.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/new_profiles/215.html (3621 words)

	UNODC Regional Office, Kenya - Ethiopia Country Profile
		Ethiopia's economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 90% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		Ethiopia is currently not an important country in money laundering, precursor chemicals, or in the production of narcotic drugs.
		Ethiopia is a party to all three international drug control conventions: 1961, 1871 and 1988.
	www.unodc.org /kenya/en/country_profile_ethi.html (1048 words)

	MapZones.com : Ethiopia Economy
		Ethiopia is one of the world’s poorest nations, with a per-capita gross domestic product (GDP of $100 a year in 1999).
		Ethiopia's economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 90% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		Coffee is critical to the Ethiopian economy, and Ethiopia earned $267 million in 1999 by exporting 105,000 metric tons.
	www.mapzones.com /world/africa/ethiopia/economyindex.php (398 words)

	Economy - Ethiopia - Africa
		Ethiopia is one of the world’s poorest nations, with a per-capita gross domestic product (GDP of $100 a year in 2000).
		The economy of Ethiopia remains heavily dependent on the earnings of the agricultural sector.
		Participation by most of the people in the monetary economy is limited; much trading is conducted by barter in local markets.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/ethiopia/economy.htm (72 words)

	Ethiopia Economy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		: In the late 1980s Ethiopia was one of the world's poorest nations, with a per capita income averaging only $120 a year.
		Average life expectancy at birth was only 47 years; the infant mortality rate was 135 per 1000 live births, and famine was a constant threat.
		Participation by the mass of the populace in the monetary economy is limited; much trading is conducted by barter in local markets.
	www.wube.net /economy.html (108 words)

	NationMaster - Ethiopian Economy statistics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ethiopia's poverty-stricken economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 60% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		Coffee is critical to the Ethiopian economy with exports of some $156 million in 2002, but historically low prices have seen many farmers switching to qat to supplement income.
		I was teaching AIDS orphans in southern Ethiopia and I believe that more than 31% of the population is living on less than a dollar a day.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/et-ethiopia/eco-economy (313 words)

	Network Economy
		Ethiopia has been late with connectivity and access but e-commerce is alive and well.
		Ethiopia is progressing in creating B2B business within the country, however, lacking when it comes to International B2B.
		Ethiopia, when compared to other African countries when it comes to Government usage of web pages and E-Leadership was ranked at a medium level.
	facweb.cs.depaul.edu /yele/Course/IS540/Global-Project/20045/Ethiopia/NetEconomy.htm (586 words)

	Ethiopia - The Economy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RESTRUCTURING THE ECONOMY along socialist lines and achieving sustained economic growth were the two major economic objectives of the Provisional Military Administrative Council when it assumed power in l974.
		A key part of the effort to reshape the economy was the implementation of Africa's most ambitious land reform program, which included nationalization of both rural and urban land.
		Most of Ethiopia's industries, large-scale agricultural farms, and financial institutions were brought under the control of the government, and both rural and urban communities were organized into a hierarchy of associations.
	countrystudies.us /ethiopia/76.htm (379 words)

	Ethiopian Coffee
		About 98% of the coffee in Ethiopia is produced by peasants on small farms that are less than a hectare, and the remain 2% is produced by the state farms.
		Ethiopia is the poorest country in Africa and it is among poorest in the world.
		Since Ethiopia's economy relies heavily on the trade of coffee, the people of this country are effected extremely with the trade of the product.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ethcoff.htm (1302 words)

	Ethiopia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since Ethiopia is landlocked, its neighboring countries are Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, and the Sudan to the west and northwest.
		Economy - overview: Ethiopia's economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 90% of exports, and 80% of total employment.
		This conflict can only weaken the economy of Ethiopia and also create more poverty since the attention the government has is not on its people but on its military and defense.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects2/Marisa/Ethiopia.html (5862 words)

	Will Ethiopia transcend
		Meles is the present leader of Ethiopia and can steer the country in the right or the wrong direction, the latter not purposely of course.
		He has brought Ethiopia to the verge of disintegration due to the wrong handling of the Eritrean problem and will take Ethiopia to the abyss if he is not careful this time around.
		Ethiopia won the war of aggression, took back its land, and was pursuing the defeated retreating Eritrean army and could have decided the fate of Eritrea, which was Ethiopia’s coastal province for thousands of years though the colonialists took it during the scramble for Africa.
	www.aigaforum.com /atnaf0513.htm (1460 words)

	Africa > Ethiopia > Country Information > Economy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Ethiopian economy has been under considerable strain since Mengistu took over reins in 1974 followed by the catastrophic famine in 1984-85.
		The main problems that remain are serious--high foreign debt, low level of industrialization (around 30%), low level of exports, lack of food self-sufficiency and the high rates of population growth.
		Ethiopia's major industries are USA, Germany, Japan and Italy.
	www.journeymart.com /DExplorer/Africa/Ethiopia/ciEconomy.htm (122 words)

	Wikinfo \| Ethiopia
		The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ityop'iya, Amharic የኢትዮጵያ) is a nation of northeastern Africa.
		Ethiopia is divided into 9 ethnically-based administrative regions (astedader akababiwach, singular - astedader akabibi) and 2 chartered cities*:
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Ethiopia (253 words)

	Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia
		Further, the United States doubtlessly assumed that new governments in Ethiopia and, eventually, Eritrea would be more likely to cooperate with the foreign policy objectives of a nation that aided their ascensions to rule and kept them in power.
		Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and Issayas Aferworki of Eritrea became the leaders of their respective countries with strong pats on the back from the U.S. State Department.
		The ethnically divisive policies of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE) and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) have led to the escalation of ethnic tensions in the country.
	fp.okstate.edu /vestal/Ethiopia/human_rights_abuses_in_ethiopia.htm (3089 words)

	Ethiopia - Economy - Postrevolution Period (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the second phase (1978-80), the economy began to recover as the government consolidated power and implemented institutional reforms.
		In the fourth period (1985-90), the economy continued to stagnate, despite an improvement in the weather in EFY l985/86 and EFY l986/87, which helped reverse the agricultural decline.
		During the 1985-90 period, the current account deficit and the overall fiscal deficit worsened to annual rates of l0.6 and l3.5 percent, respectively, and the debt service ratio continued to climb.
	countrystudies.us /ethiopia/78.htm (553 words)

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