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| Title: | Reflections on development in Ethiopia: new trends, sustainability and challenges |
| Editor: | Rahmato, Dassalegn |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 285 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Addis Ababa |
| Publisher: | Forum for Social Studies |
| ISBN: | 9789994450527 |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | development planning development plans economic development social inequality decentralization regional disparity human rights rural economy land acquisition sugar drylands |
| Abstract: | The studies in this collective volume focus on different aspects of Ethiopia's development program, examining both progress as well as challenges and pitfalls. The volume is divided into three parts, focusing on economic development, decentralization and revenue sharing, and the rural sector, respectively. Contents: Part 1 - The Growth and Transformation Plan: opportunities, challenges and lessons (Meheret Ayenew); Growth, poverty and inequality, 2000-2013: a macroeconomic appraisal (Alemayehu Geda and Addis Yimer); Development with or without freedom? (Assefa Fiseha); Development programs and the post-MDG agenda (Amdissa Teshome). Part II - Decentralization and regional and local development: trends and policy implications (Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher); Inter-governmental transfers and the problem of imbalances in regional development: the need for a human rights approach (Solomon Negussie). Part III - Post-dependent rural development: engaging and assessing subjective well-being (Jeffrey Bookwalter and Peter H. Koehn); Large-scale land investments revisited (Dessalegn Rahmato); The expansion of the sugar industry in the southern pastoral lowlands (Asnake Kefale and Fana Gebresenbet); Governance challenges of dry woodlands (Melaku Bebele and Habtemariam Kassa). [ASC Leiden abstract] |