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Letter to the Editor

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Dear Editor in Chief,

I would like to express my deep appreciation to Sara Negerie’s  letter to the Editor entitled “Adding Life to Years”, on Reporter Weekly dated April 28, 2012. Add a comment

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Grievances of an Ex-Nationalist

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By P.A

This is it!!! I have had it. This is a culmination of so many incidents that have caused me to throw in the towel and accept my country, my people and my government for the failure that they are. Maybe not a complete failure, but they have failed where it counts, respect for our own, respect for the citizens. Complete and utter failure in providing the basic services that a national of a country requires. Add a comment

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Request for retraction

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Your organization has published in The Reporter Vol XVI No 816 April 28, 2012 under the headline entitled “Adika to become Volkswagen dealer” and “Adika has bought Seferian, the company that was the sole dealer of Volkswagen and Skoda in Ethiopia for the last 50 years” Add a comment

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The wrong choice

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By Jagdish Bhagwati

The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank, over Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was overwhelmingly regarded as a vastly superior candidate, is impossible to condone but easy to explain. It also points to serious dangers for the unfinished task of development. Add a comment

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Re-capturing the Friedmans

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By J. Bradford DeLong

On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah’s new book The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It and Milton and Rose Director Friedman’s classic Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. Considering them together, my overwhelming thought is that the Friedmans would find their task of justifying and advocating small-government libertarianism much harder today than they did in 1979. Add a comment

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Adding life to years

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Dear Editor,

I first realized that something was not quite right after I felt a lump on my left breast. After further medical examination at Bethel Hospital, I was diagnosed with breast cancer (disassociated ductal carcinoma). Add a comment

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Banking in the developing world: the poor are different

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By J.P.

How many people in the world have bank accounts and what do they use them for? You would think there would be answers to those questions, given that banking is the quintessentially global business, and is important not only in the West but in developing countries, where banks can help poor people save, borrow and invest. Add a comment

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New partnership for development

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By Christian Friis Bach

In October last year a new government came to power in Denmark, and on 1 January 2012 Denmark took over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. Both in Denmark and in Europe we have strong international ambitions. Add a comment

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Smoking dust road to smoking Abay

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By Nebyou W.

Tis Abay, which means the smoking Abay, is found 30 kms from Bahir Dar, the capital city of the Amhara Regional State in Ethiopia. But amazingly enough the road to Tis Abay is undertaken by dilapidated old N3 buses whose identity (of the buses) is now totally Ethiopian, as some mechanics chide. Add a comment

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