Ethiopia's Economic Growth: Problem Statement and Justification
PROBLEM STATEMENT AND JUSTIFICATION Ethiopia is one of the countries with the highest rate of population growth in Africa. For long, there has not been corresponding economic growth to meet the needs of the ever growing population in the country. Consequently, the people have been subjected to poor living condition both in urban and rural area. In urban areas; there have been multiple factors those have contributed to different problems on the top of the general poverty and fall in the living standards. Repeated drought, protracted civil war and ethnic conflict have led to displacement of the families and migration to urban areas. These recurrent problem crated venerability in the country.
Many rural people abandon their village and migrate to cities and towns in search of better living condition. The migrants generally, however, do not get jobs in the urban centre because of the society of employment opportunity, once hand, and the lack of requisite skill for urban employment on the other hand. The most series problems are unemployment, orphan and vulnerable children, commercial sex work, early marriage, drug addiction, shortage of social service (education, health and sanitation), HIV/AIDS are the majors. The vulnerability and problem is high in children and women group. According to the current information from labour and social affairs ministry, some 150,000 children live on the streets in Ethiopia, about 60,000 of them in the capital city. However, Aid agencies estimate that the problem may be far more serious, with nearly 600,000 street children countrywide and over 100,000 in Addis Ababa. The United Nations Children’s Fund says the problem may be getting worse because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and falling incomes. HIV/AIDS has already orphaned 1 million children in Ethiopia. Begging is life, with many children working to escape poverty. It is also estimated that 40 percent of children start work before the age of six, often working a 30-hour week.
Many rural people abandon their village and migrate to cities and towns in search of better living condition. The migrants generally, however, do not get jobs in the urban centre because of the society of employment opportunity, once hand, and the lack of requisite skill for urban employment on the other hand. The most series problems are unemployment, orphan and vulnerable children, commercial sex work, early marriage, drug addiction, shortage of social service (education, health and sanitation), HIV/AIDS are the majors. The vulnerability and problem is high in children and women group. According to the current information from labour and social affairs ministry, some 150,000 children live on the streets in Ethiopia, about 60,000 of them in the capital city. However, Aid agencies estimate that the problem may be far more serious, with nearly 600,000 street children countrywide and over 100,000 in Addis Ababa. The United Nations Children’s Fund says the problem may be getting worse because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and falling incomes. HIV/AIDS has already orphaned 1 million children in Ethiopia. Begging is life, with many children working to escape poverty. It is also estimated that 40 percent of children start work before the age of six, often working a 30-hour week.