Barriers and Drivers A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate studies of Addis Ababa University in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Accounting and Finance. By Ayana Gemechu May‚ 2012 Addis Ababa‚ Ethiopia i Addis Ababa University School of Business and Public Administration Department of Accounting and Finance (Graduate Program) Adoption of Electronic banking system in Ethiopian Banking industry: Barriers and Drivers A Thesis Submitted to the
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Grabs The last decade has witnessed a serious change in the distribution and accessibility of food. In 2010 Ethiopia was home to 2.8 million people in need of emergency food aid; yet this country had concurrently sold more than 600‚000 hectares of agricultural land to transnational companies that export the majority of their produce (Reuters‚ 2011; Economist‚ 2009; Green‚ 2011). Ethiopia remains a country facing great food insecurity‚ which is a lack of access to sufficient‚ safe and nutritious
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Anecdotal evidence indicates that the First Five-Year Development plan of the Imperial Ethiopian Government was the first formal planning started in Ethiopia in 1957 (MoFED‚ 2002 ). In the same regime‚ there were three Five-Year development plans. The First Five-Year Development Plan (1957-1961) had the objective of laying foundations for further take-off. The Second Five-Year Development Plan (1963-1967) followed it‚ which was a prelude to a 20 years’ development plan that targeted doubling income
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As I read‚ Catherine Schulz book Being Wrong‚ I started to question my own beliefs. Coming from a country like Ethiopia‚ religion was a big part of my life. People in Ethiopia used religion as the get away from their struggles and I was definitely one of them until I was exposed to the western world. As a young kid I was exposed to many cultures. I was born in a small village in Ethiopia. My family was Muslim but my parents weren’t your typical religious people in the village.
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In some parts‚ such as Ethiopia and Egypt‚ Christianity had already been introduced‚ but for the rest of Africa‚ Christianity wasn’t introduced until the modern era. Not all missionaries supported the colonialism that was happening‚ but the missionaries that did‚ believed that
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For the past few decades there was political hostility between Somalia and Ethiopia and my family and I took that into consideration. By the time we moved to Ethiopia my father was in the U.S and he was helping us financially and that was something we didn’t have before. We also had some relatives that would be helping us to settle down in the capital city Adidas Ababa. The move to Ethiopia meant that I had to learn another language which was even harder than Swahili. Since my father
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transfer agreement was signed in 2005‚ between the IBC and EARO in Ethiopia and a UK company Vernique BioTech Ltd‚ on the plant genetic resources of Vernonia (Gebreselassie‚ 2009). Vernonia is a tall plant with shiny black seeds‚ originating from Ethiopia (Gebreselassie‚ 2009). There are many varieties of the Vernonia plant‚ however after much research the variety today known as‚ Vernonia galamensis‚ was discovered in Ethiopia‚ and contained more vernolic acid than any previously researched vernonia
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experts think that all wars in the future will be over water. One of this expected water war is a war for Nile River water. The water of the Nile River was shared by ten African countries which are Tanzania‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Uganda‚ Congo‚ Kenya‚ Ethiopia‚ Eritrea‚ Sudan and Egypt. The allocation of the Nile water depends on two main agreements. So what were those two agreements? I-Nile
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The world was plunged into World War II in 1939 for many reasons. There were reasons such as Japan invading Manchuria‚ Mussolini’s attack on Ethiopia‚ and when Hitler defies The Versailles Treaty. Appeasement was one of the biggest things that lead to WWII. It basically just postponed the War from happening. The Most effective response to aggression at this time was surely collective security. Using Appeasement got the countries no where and didn’t benefit them in the least. Many things brought
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