As Ethiopia’s new government begins work in September 2010, it is armed with a new plan: the Growth and Transformation … Plan (GTP). Trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) figure in the new plan but less reliance is placed on FDI inflows … trade deficit. Ethiopia has tried different trade strategies in the past, the perennial goal being to diversify its exports …

This paper uses firm level panel data from Ethiopian manufacturing to investigate the investment behavior of firms … under uncertainty. The paper focuses on the heterogeneity of firm level investment responses to both demand and supply side … sources of uncertainty. Accordingly, the investment-uncertainty relationship is examined across groups of firms with varying …

. This article assesses the investment and productivity impacts of the recent low-cost land certification implemented in the … Tigray region of Ethiopia, using a unique household and farm-plot-level panel data set, with data from before and up to eight … soil conservation structures, investment in trees, and land productivity. …