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Challenges and opportunities for inclusive development in Ethiopia
Proceedings of Conferences held in 2017
Dessalegn Rahmato, Meheret Ayenew
Dessalegn Rahmato won the 1999 Prince Claus Award in recognition of significant achievements in the field of research and development. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Forum for Social Studies, and was formerly its Executive Director. He has pu…
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Ethiopian Labour Migration to the Gulf and South Africa
Mohammed Z.,
Kefale A.
The major objective of the research is to produce evidence-based knowledge on the social and economic impacts of labour migration by looking at the challenges and opportunities of Ethiopian labour migration to the Gulf and South Africa. On the one h…
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Faces of Poverty
Harold Aspen
This paper tells the story of four families in Gata in South Walo, a Muslim community in rural Ethiopia with a long history. It depicts their lives during a recent period of drought and famine, where the effects of the killer famine of 1984 are stil…
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Multiple faces of khat
Asnake Kefale, Zerihun Mohammed
FSS, in collaboration with the Civil Society Support Programme I(CSSPI), designed and implemented a project on khat in Ethiopia. The project had three components: research, national conference and production of a documentary film. The research conta…
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Reading through the Charcoal Industry in Ethiopia
Production, Marketing, Consumption and Impact
Melaku Bekele, Zenebe Girmay
Studies in many African countries show that charcoal making is among the primary drivers of deforestation and subsequent land degradation. In the case of Ethiopia, charcoal is produced from state-owned (public) forests and woodlands. There is little…
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Reflections on development in Ethiopia
New trends, sustainability and challenges
This volume brings together a select number of studies which give a broader picture of the country's development program, examining not just the progress that has been made so far but also the challenges and pitfalls that are evident. This, we belie…
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Society, state and identity in African history
ባህሩ ዘውዴ
Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University, Executive Director of the Forum for Social Studies, and Vice-President of the Association of African Historians. He was formerly Chairperson of the Department of History and Dir…
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The education of children entangled in khat trade in Ethiopia
The case of two khat market centers
Girma Negash
Based on empirical data collected from two khat marketing centers, Aweday and Wondo Genet, this monograph explores the impact of children’s involvement in khat trading activities on their schooling. The study also investigates the major causes for s…
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The Khat conundrum in Ethiopia
Socioeconomic Impacts and Policy Directions
Yeraswork Admassie
The study, the findings of which are reported in this volume, focused on the unravelling the intertwined socioeconomic impacts of Khat consumption and addiction, and culminates with the identification of feasible national-level strategies and policy…
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