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2007 http//www.ethiopianchamber.com ELSE ADDIS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PLC Vertically integrated textile factory Grade 1 construction Machinery rental ELSE ADDIS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PLC Bole Sub City Addis Ababa – Ethiopia Tel / fax: +251 116 632 845/852 OMO VALLEY FARM COOPERATION PLC OMO VALLEY FARM COOPERATION PLC FULLY MECHANIZED COTTON FARM OMO VALLY FARM COOPERATION PLC Address:- BOLE SUB CITY WOREDA 03 ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA Tel - +251 116 63 28 45/37 Fax - +251 116 63 28 52 Elilly International Hotel Tel: +251 115 587 777 / 70 Fax: +251 115 585 200 E mail: [email protected] Internet: www.elillyhotel.com Kazanchis, Kirkos Sub city 17/18, PO Box 29228 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Your First Choice in Hospitality! 3
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2007 http//www.ethiopianchamber.com

ELSE ADDIS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PLC

Vertically integrated textile factoryGrade 1 construction

Machinery rental

ELSE ADDIS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PLC

Bole Sub City Addis Ababa – Ethiopia Tel / fax: +251 116 632 845/852

OMO VALLEY FARM COOPERATION PLC

OMO VALLEY FARM COOPERATION PLC FULLY MECHANIZED

COTTON FARM OMO VALLY FARM COOPERATION PLC

Address:-BOLE SUB CITY WOREDA 03 ADDIS

ABABA ETHIOPIATel - +251 116 63 28 45/37

Fax - +251 116 63 28 52

Elilly International HotelTel: +251 115 587 777 / 70 Fax: +251 115 585 200

E mail: [email protected]: www.elillyhotel.com

Kazanchis, Kirkos Sub city 17/18, PO Box 29228 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Your First Choice in Hospitality!

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መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም2 3መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም

የሴት ነጋዴዎችን አቅም ለማጐልበት

ሴቶች በሀገራችን ለዘመናት ከፍተኛ የባህል ተጽዕኖ ስር ሆነው በርካታ ተግዳሮቶችን አሳልፈዋል፡፡ ከዚህ ተፅዕኖ ለመላቀቅ ህገ-መንግስታዊ መሰረት ያለው ለውጥ ከተጀመረ ሁለት አስርት አመታት ተቆጥረዋል፡፡ ባለፉት ሁለት አስርት አመታት በርካታ ፖሊሲዎችና እስትራቴጂዎች ሴቶች ማዕከል በማድረግ ተቀርፀው ተግባራዊ መሆን በመጀመራቸው የሴቶች ተሳትፎ በፖለቲካ፣ በኢኮኖሚና በማኀበራዊ መስኮች እመርታ እያሳየ መሆኑ አሌ የማይባል ነው፡፡

በተለይ የአነስተኞችና ጥቃቅን ተቋማት መበራከት ሴቶች በኢኮኖሚው ላይ ያላቸውን ድርሻ በከፍተኛ ሁኔታ ማሳደግ እንደተቻለ የተለያዩ መረጃዎች ያሳያሉ፡፡ በቅርቡ ሩዋንዳ ኪጋሊ ከተማ የአነስተኛና ጥቃቅን ልማት በአፍሪካ ያለውን ሁኔታ አስመልክቶ ከፍተኛ ኮንፈረንስ ተካሂዷል፡፡ ሩዋንዳ ሴቶች በፖለቲካና ኢኮኖሚው መስክ ያላቸው ሚና ከፍተኛ መሆኑን ለሌሎች የአፍሪካ ሀገራት አርአያ መሆኗ በሰፊው ይነገራል በፖርላማ ሴቶች ከፍተኛ (60%) ቁጥር እንዳላቸው በሚነገርላት ሩዋንዳ በኢኮኖሚውም ከፍተኛ ድርሻ መያዛቸው ተወስቷል፡፡ በአፍሪካ ሞሪሺየስን ጨምሮ ሩዋንዳ ከፍተኛ የኢኮኖሚ እድገት ማስመዝገብ የቻሉ ሀገራት መሆናቸው ይፋ የሆነ ሲሆን ለዚህም የሴቶችን ተሳትፎ በእጅጉ ማሳደግ መቻላቸው አይነተኛ ምክንያት መሆኑን ለመገመት ይቻላል፡፡

ኢትዮጵያ በከፍተኛ የኢኮኖሚ እድገት ላይ መሆኗን መግለጽ አስፈላጊ ባይሆንም እንደ ሩዋንዳ የሴቶችን ተሳትፎ በእጅጉ ማጐልበት ብትችል ኢኮኖሚያዊ እድገቷን በከፍተኛ ሁኔታ ማሳደግ ብቻ ሳይሆን በአስተማማኝ መሰረት ላይ እንድትጥል ያስችላታል የሚል እሳቤ በምሁራን ዘንድ ይሰነዘራል፡፡ የሴቶች ተሳትፎ በኢትዮጵያ ቀድሞ ከነበረው ማነቆ ተላቆ መራመድ የጀመረ ቢሆንም ከህዝብ ቁጥሩ አንፃር ተሳትፏቸው አሁንም ኋላ ቀር ነው፡፡

የሴት ነጋዴዎች ማኀበራት በሀገር አቀፍና በከተሞች ደረጃ መቋቋሙ ለሴቶች ነጋዴዎች መስፋፋት ጉልህ ሚና ይኖረዋል፡፡ በየደረጃው መንግስት ሴቶችን ለማደራጀት እያደረገ ያለውን ጥረት አጠናክሮ ሊቀጥል የሚገባ ሲሆን የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኅበራትም የሴቶችን የኢኮኖሚ አቅም ለማጎልበት የጀመሩትን ሥራ ትኩረት ሰጥተው ሊሰሩ ይገባል፡፡

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መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም2 3መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም

የኢትዮጵያና የአዲስ አበባ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤቶች ሰራተኞች ጳጉሜ 5 ቀን 2ዐዐ6 ዓ.ም የ2ዐዐ7 ዓ.ም የአዲስ አመት በዓልን በጋራ አከበሩ፡፡

በኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት መሰብሰቢያ አዳራሽ በተከናወነው ክብረ በዓል የሁለቱ ምክር ቤቶች ዋና ፀሐፊዎች የመልካም ምኞች መግለጫ አስተላልፈዋል፡፡

የኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት ዋና ፀሐፊ አቶ ጋሻው ደበበ ሁለቱ ምክር ቤቶች በየጊዜው እየተገናኙ የሚያከብሩት በአል ተጠናክሮ በመቀጠል የተቋቋሙበትን ዓላማ ለማስፈፀምና የንግዱን ማኀበረሰብ ለማገልገል በጋራ የሚሰሩበት እንዲሆን መልካም ምኞታቸውን ገልፀዋል፡፡

አቶ ጌታቸው ረጋሳ የአዲስ አበባ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት ዋና ፀሐፊ በበኩላቸው እንኳን ለ2ዐዐ7 ዓ.ም በሰላም አደረሳችሁ ሲሉ ተናግረው ጊዜ አልፎ ጊዜ ሲተካ አዳዲስ አሰራሮችን የምናወጣበትና በህይወታችን ተስፋ ሰንቀን ለስኬት የምንተጋበት መልካም አጋጣሚ እነዲሆን ተመኝተዋል፡፡

የአዲስ አበባና የኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት ሰራተኞች

አዲስ አመቱን በጋራ አከበሩ

የኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት ማኔጅመንትና ሰራተኞች በ2ዐዐ6 ዓ.ም የምክር ቤቱ የሥራ አፈፃፀም ሪፖርት እና በ2ዐዐ7 ዓ.ም እቅድ ዙሪያ ፡፡

ነሀሴ 29 ቀን 2ዐዐ6 ዓ.ም በአዳማ ከተማ የተደረገውን የእቅድና አፈፃፀም ሪፖርት ውይይትን የከፈቱት የምክር ቤቱ ዋና ፀሐፊ አቶ ጋሻው ደበበ ሰራተኞችና የማኔጅመንት አባላቱ በጋራ የሚያደርጉት ውይይት የምክር ቤቱን የስራ እንቅስቃሴ በተጠናከረ መልክ በስራ አፈፃፀም ዙሪያ የሚታዩ ችግሮችን ለመፍታት እጅግ ጠቃሚ በመሆኑ ሁሉም በንቃት ሊሳተፉበት ይገባል ብለዋል፡፡

የምክር ቤቱ ሰራተኞች በተለይ በ2ዐዐ7 ዓ.ም የበጀት አቅድ ላይ ሰፋ ያለ ውይይት ያደረጉ ሲሆን የምክር ቤቱን የፋይናንስ አቅም ለማሳደግ የተቀረፁ አዳዲስ ፕሮጀክቶች ዙሪያ በምን መልኩ ተግባራዊ ሊሆን እንደሚችል ተወያይተዋል፡፡

ምክር ቤቱ ከዚህ ቀደም የፋይናንስ ድጋፍ ያገኝባቸው የነበሩና አሁን የፕሮጀክት እድሜያቸው የተጠናቀቁና ስራቸው ያላለቀ ተግባራትን በሌሎች የገቢ ማግኛ ዘዴዎች ማስቀጠል ስለሚቻልበት ሁኔታ በጋራ መክረዋል፡፡

በተለይ ምክር ቤቱ የተያዙ አዳዲስ ኢግዚቢሽኖችና ህዝባዊ ተሳትፎ የሚደረግባቸው የተለያዮ ፕሮጀክቶች የምክር ቤቱን ገቢ ለማሳደግ ከፍተኛ እምነት የተጣለባቸው ናቸው፡፡

ከUNDP, ECCSA-HWK እና ከEU ይገኙ የነበሩ የተለያዩ ገቢዎች በ2ዐዐ7 ዓ.ም እንደማይኖሩ ታሳቢ የተደረጉ ሲሆን ምክር ቤቱ በአብዛኛው የገቢ ምንጮቹን ከለጋሾት በማንሳት በራሱ ለመሸፈን ማቀድ የምክር ቤቱን የእድገት ደረጃ የሚያሳዩና አስተማማኝ የእድገት ደረጃ ላይ ለመድረስ ረጅሙን ጉዞ መጀመሩን የሚያሳይ ሆኖ

የምክር ቤቱ ማኔጅመንትና ሰራተኞች መከሩ

ተገኝቷል፡፡

ምክር ቤቱ አስተዳደራዊ ወጪዎችንም በእጥፍ ያሳደገ መሆኑ ከተያዘው በጀት ለመረዳት የተቻለ ሲሆን በ2ዐዐ6 ዓ.ም በጀት ሳይያዝላቸ ያልተከናወኑ ፕሮጀክቶችና ተግባራትን በበጀት አመቱ ለማከናወን ከወዲሁ ዝግጅቱን ማጠናቀቁን ለማየት ተችሏል፡፡

ለአብነት ያህል ምክር ቤቱ የምርምር ስራዎችን በተለይ በንግድና ኢንቨስትመንት መስፋፋት ላይ ፣ የስነምግባር መመሪያ ለማስተዋወቅ በታላቁ የህዳሴ ግድብ ግንባታ ላይ በአባልነት ለመስራት፣ የአባላት ምክር ቤቶችን አቅም ለመገንባት፣ የኮሜሳ ነፃ ገበያን ለመቀላቀል ሀገሪቷ በምታደርገው ጥረት ላይ የበኩሉን ድርሻ ለመወጣት የሚሉና ሌሎች በርካታ ተግባራት በበጀት

ዓመቱ ለመስራት ታቅዷል፡፡

ይሁንና ከለጋሽ ድርጅቶች የሚገኘው በጀት ከአምናው ጋር ሲነፃፀር ከ95% በላይ ጭማሪ የሚያሳይ ሲሆን የነዚህ ለጋሽ ድርጅቶች ድጐማ በበጀት ዓመቱ መገኘት ምክር ቤቱ ላቀዳቸው በርካታ ተግባራት እጅግ አስፈላጊ እንደሚሆን ከወዲሁ ታሳቢ ሆኗል፡፡

ባለሀብቶች ጋር የአቻ ለአቻ ውይይቶችን ማድረግ ችለዋል፡፡

እንደ ዋና ፀሀፊው ገለፃ በተለይ በማዕድን ዘርፍ ኢትዮጵያ ከካናዳ መንግስትና ባለሀብቶች ጋር በርካታ ስራዎችን እያከናወነች ያለችበት ሁኔታ በመኖሩ ይህንንም ለማስተዋወቅ መድረኩ ምቹ ነበር ብለዋል፡፡ በተጨማሪም የቆዳና ጨርቃጨርቅ ዘርፉን በተመለከተ ውጤታማ የሚባል ገዥና ሻጭን የማገናኘት ሥራ ተከናውኗል፡፡ በመሆኑም ከኢትዮጵያ በተቐሱት ዘርፎች የተሰማሩ ወደ ሀያ የሚጠጉ ባለሀብቶችን ይዞ የተጓዘው የልዑካን ቡድን የገበያ ዕድል የሚያገኙበትን መድረክ ለመፍጠር እንዲችሉ የአቻ ለአቻ ውይይቶች ላይ እንዲሳተፉ ተደርጓል፡፡

የምክር ቤቱ የሥራ ኃላፊዎችም በካናዳ ቆይታቸው ከካናዳ የንግድና ኢንዱስትሪ ምክር ቤት የሥራ ኃላፊዎች ጋር በጋራ ሊሰሩ በሚችሉባቸው ተግባራት ዙርያ ውይይት አድርገዋል፡፡ በሁለቱ ምክር ቤቶች መሀከል የሚኖረውን ትብብር ለማጠናከር የመግባቢያ ሰነድ እንዲፈረም መግባባት ላይ በመደረሱ ረቂቁ ለሀገሪቱ የንግድና ኢንዱስትሪ ምክር ቤት በቀጣይ የሚፈረም ይሆናል::

ዱባይየዱባይ አፍሪካ ፎረም አላማ በይዘቱ ከካናዳው

ጋር ተመሳሳይ ሲሆን አፍሪካ ያላትን አቅም የማስተዋወቅ፣ ባለሀብቶች ወደ አፍሪካ አይናቸውን

እንድጥሉ የሚያግዝ ነው፡፡ የኢትዮጵያ የንግድ ልዑካን ቡድን በሀገሪቱ ፕሬዚዳንት ዶክተር ሙላቱ ተሾመ የተመራ ነው፡፡ በዚህ የዱባይ አፍሪካ ኮንፈረንስ ላይ ሀገራቸውን እንዲያስዋውቁ የሶስት የአፍሪካ ሀገራት መሪዎች ንግግር እንዲደርጉ ተጋብዘው ነበር፡፡ ኢትዮጵያ ከነዚህ ሀገሮች መሀል አንዷ ነበረች፡፡ መሪዎቹ ያደረጓቸው ንግግሮችና ያቀረቡትን ፅሁፍና ከተሳታዎች ጋር የተደረጉ ውይይቶችን በዋናነት የመሩት ታዋቂው የአሜሪካ ኬብል ኒውስ ኔትወርክ (የሲ.ኤን.ኤን) ጋዜጠኞች ነበሩ፡፡

የግሉ ዘርፍ ተወካዮች በዱባይ እንዲገኙ የሆነው የኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኅበራት ምክር ቤት ከሀገሪቱ ፕሬዚዳንት ክቡር ዶክተር ሙላቱ ተሾመ ጽ/ቤት ጋር በጋራ መስራት መጀመራቸውን ተከትሎ እንደሆነ ለመረዳት ተችሏል፡፡ አቶ ጋሻው እንደገለፁት ምክር ቤቱ በየሶስት ወራት ጊዜ ከክቡር ፕሬዚዳንቱ ጋር በመገናኘት መስራት ከጀመሩ ጀምሮ ስምምነቶች ላይ የደረሱባቸው በርካታ ጉዳዮች ሲኖሩ ከነዚህ አንዱ የሀገሪቱ ፕሬዚዳንት ለስራ ወደ ተለያዩ ሀገራት ሲሄዱ የግሉ ዘርፍ ተወካዮችም አብረው እንዲጓዙና ንግድና ኢንቨስትመንትን ለማስፋፋት የሚያደርጉትን ጥረት በተጠናከረ መልኩ እንዲሰሩ የሚለው አንዱና ዋንኛው ነው፡፡ “በዚህም መሰረት የተጠኑ ፕሮጀክት ያላቸው 13 የንግዱን ማኅበረሰብ ይዘን ነው የሄድነው፡፡ በመሆኑም ውጤታማ ስራ መስራት ተችሏል” ብለዋል ዋና ፀሀፊው፡፡

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መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም4 5መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም

የአዲስ አበባ ሴት ነጋዴዎች ማኀበር ከለጋሽ ድርጅቶች ጋር በመተባበር በተለያዩ የእደ ጥበብ ሙያዎች ያሰለጠናቸውን 2ዐ ሰልጣኞች አስመረቀ፡፡

መስከረም 28 ቀን 2ዐዐ6 ዓ.ም በኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማበራት ምክር ቤት መሰብሰቢያ አዳራሽ በተካሄደው የምረቃት ሥነ-ስርዓት ላይ የምክር ቤቱ ምክትል ዋና ፀሐፊ አቶ እንዳልካቸው ስሜ እንዳሉት ሴቶችን በመደገፍ በኢኮኖሚው ውስጥ ጉልህ ሚና እንዲኖራቸው ማድረግ በመላው ዓለም ትኩረት ተሰጥቶበት እየተሰራበት ያለ ጉዳይ ሲሆን በሀገራችንም ከቅርብ አመታት ወዲህ የመንግስትንና የልማት አጋሮችን አትኩሮት እንዳገኙ ተናግረዋል፡፡

ዓለም አቀፍ የጥናት ውጤቶችን ዋቢ በማድረግ ከሚያገኙት ገቢ አንፃር የሴቶች ኢንቨስትመንት ከወንዶች ጋር ሲነፃፀር 9ዐ፡40 ነው ያሉት ምክትል ዋና ፀሐፊው ሴቶች በኢንቨስትመንት መስክ የሚኖራቸውን ሚና እንዲያጎለብቱ ማገዝ እጅግ አስፈላጊ ነው ብለዋል፡፡

የአዲስ አበባ ሴት ነጋዴዎች ማኀበር እያደረገ ያለውን የክህሎት ስልጠና

በተለያዮ የሙያ ዘርፍ የሰለጠኑ ሴት ነጋዴዎች ተመረቁ

አጠናክሮ ይቀጥል ዘንድ የባለድርሻዎች ድጋፍ እንዳይለየው ያሳሰቡት አቶ እንዳልካቸው የኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ

ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት የበኩሉን ድርሻ ይወጣል ብለዋል፡፡

ምክር ቤቱ ለሴት ነጋዴዎች ከፍተኛ እገዛ ለማድረግ በእስትራቴጂክ እቅዱ ውስጥ አትኩሮት የተሰጠው መሆኑን ም/ዋና ፀሐፊው ገልፀው በምክር ቤቱ ውስጥ የሴቶችና የወጣቶች ጉዳዮችን የሚመለከት ዩኒት ለማቋቋም መዘጋጀቱን አያይዘው ገልፀዋል፡፡

የአዲስ አበባ ነጋዴ ሴቶች ማኀበር ፕሬዚዳንት ወ/ሮ አቻምየለሽ አሸናፊ በበኩላቸው ማኀበራቸው አባላቱ ራሳቸውን ኢንዲችሉ የሙያ ክህሎት ስልጠና ለመስጠት ከፍተኛ ጥረት እያደረገ መሆኑን አውስተው ከተቋቋመበት ከ1993 ዓ.ም ጀምሮ ከፍተኛ ውጣውረዶችን አልፎ ቀስ በቀስ እድገት በማስመዝገብ ላይ

መሆኑን አስረድተዋል፡፡ የኢትዮጵያ የንግድና ዘርፍ ማኀበራት ምክር ቤት ቢሮ ሰጥቷቸው ከመንግስትም በርካታ ድጋፎችን በማግኘትና ከለጋሽ ድርጅቶች በሚደረግለት የፋይናንስ ድጋፍ የተቋቋመበትን አላማ ለማሳካት በትጋት እየሰራ መሆኑን አብራርተዋል፡፡በእለቱ 2ዐ ሰልጣኞች በሰርተፍኬት የተመረቁ ሲሆን ከነዚህ መሀል ሶስቱ በቅርቡ ከአረብ ሀገር የተባረሩና ለእንግልት የተዳረጉ ወጣቶች መሆናቸውን ለመረዳት ተችሏል፡፡

ሰርተፍኬቱን ለተመራቂዎች የሰጡት ም/ክትል ዋና ፀሐፊ አቶ እንዳልካቸው ስሜን ጨምሮ ከአዲስ አበባ የንግድ ቢሮና ከለጋሽ ድርጅቶች የተወከሉ ኃላፊዎች በስነ ስርዓቱ ላይ ተገኝተዋል፡፡

አዲስ አበባ መስከረም 30/2007 ከደን የሚለቀቅ በካይ ጋዝ ቅነሳ ፕሮጀክት/ሬድ ፕላስ/ የደን ይዞታን በማስፋፋት የተጀመረውን የአረንጓዴ ኢኮኖሚ ልማት ከዳር ለማድረስ እንደሚረዳ ተገለጸ። ፕሮጀክቱን ከግብ ለማድረስና ኢትዮጵያን ተጠቃሚ ለማድረግ ህብረተሰቡን በማነቃቃትና ግንዛቤ በመፍጠር ስራ ላይ መገናኛ ብዙሃን ትኩረት እንዲሰጡም ጥሪ ቀርቧል።

የአካባቢና ደን ሚኒስቴር ከፋና ብሮድካስቲንግ ኮርፖሬት እና ከሬድ ፕላስ ፕሮጀክት ጋር በመሆን ‘’የሬድ ፕላስ ዘርፈ ብዙ ጠቀሜታዎች ለደን ዘርፍ ዕድገት’’ በሚል መሪ ቃል የውይይት መድረክ አካሂደዋል። የብሄራዊ ሬድ ፕላስ ፕሮጀክት ሴክሬታሪያት አስተባባሪ ዶክተር ይተብቱ

ሞገስ እንደተናገሩት ፕሮጀክቱ በአገሪቱ የሚገኙ የደን ይዞታዎችን በመጠበቅና አዳዲሶችንም በማስፋፋት የአየር ንብረት ለውጡን ለመከላከል ያግዛል። ፕሮጀክቱ ኢትዮጵያ በደን ከምታከማቸው የካርቦን መጠን ተገቢውን ጥቅም እንድታገኝ የሚረዳ እንደሆነም ነው ዶክተር ይተብቱ የተናገሩት።

ኢትዮጵያን በዓለም አቀፉ የካርቦን ሽያጭ ፕሮጀክት ተጠቃሚ ለማድረግ የደን ቆጠራ ከማካሄድ ባለፈ፣ የአካባቢ ተጽዕኖ ግምገማ ጥናት፣ የግንዛቤ ማስጨበጫና የፖሊሲ ዝግጅት እየተከናወነ ነው ብለዋል። ለፕሮጀክቱ መሳካት የሁሉም ባለድርሻ አካላት ተሳትፎ ያስፈልጋል ያሉት አስተባባሪው በተለይም የመገናኛ ብዙሃን በሕብረተሰቡ ዘንድ ግንዛቤ በመፍጠር

የበኩላቸውን እንዲወጡ ጠይቀዋል። በመካሄድ ላይ ያለው የደን ቆጠራ በመጪው ሰኔ ወር እንደሚጠናቀቅና ኢትዮጵያ በ2008 ዓ.ም መጨረሻ ሙሉ በሙሉ የካርቦን ሽያጭ ተጠቃሚ እንደምትሆን ገልጸዋል።

በአካባቢና ደን ሚኒስቴር የደን ዘርፍ ሚኒስትር ዴኤታ አማካሪ ዶክተር ተፈራ መንግስቱ አገሪቱ የአየር ንብረት ለውጥን ለመከላከል ከምታደርገው ተግባራዊ እንቅስቃሴ ተጠቃሚ ትሆን ዘንድ ከደን የሚለቀቅ የበካይ ጋዝ ቅነሳ ብሄራዊ መርሃ ግብር ጉልህ ሚና አለው ብለዋል። የደን ልማትና አጠባበቅን ሳይንሳዊ በሆነ መንገድ ለማከናወን የሚያስችሉ መመሪያዎችን አዘጋጅቶ ለህብረተሰቡ ተደራሽ ለማድረግ መታቀዱንም አብራርተዋል።

በሚኒስቴሩ የደን ፖሊሲ ስትራቴጂና ቁጥጥር ዳይሬክተር ዶክተር ይግረማቸው ስዩም በበኩላቸው የህዝብ ቁጥርና የማገዶ ፍጆታ መጨመር እንዲሁም የእርሻ መሬት መስፋፋት ለደን መመናመን ምክንያቶች መሆናቸውን ባቀረቡት ጽሁፍ አመልክተዋል። የደን ልማት ለግብርና ምርታማነት፣ ለቱሪዝም፣ ለኃይልና የብዝሃ ህይወት ኃብቶችን ለመጠበቅ ጠቀሜታው የጎላ መሆኑን በመጠቆም የደን ሃብት በአግባቡ ከተጠበቀ የተፋጠነና ቀጣይነት ያለው የኢኮኖሚ ዕድገት ለማምጣት ያግዛል ነው ያሉት። የደን ሃብት ‘’የዘላቂ የኢኮኖሚ ልማት ሞተር ነው’’ ብለዋል ዶክተር ይግረማቸው። በውይይት መድረኩ የፌዴራልና የክልል ከፍተኛ የሥራ ኃላፊዎች፣ የዓለም ዓቀፍ ድርጅቶች ተወካዮችና የሬድ ፕላስ ባለድርሻ አካላት ተሳታፊ ሆነዋል። እንደ አውሮፓውያን አቆጣጠር በ2008 የተጀመረው ከደን የሚለቀቅ የበካይ ጋዝ ቅነሳ ፕሮጀክት በዋናነት ታዳጊ አገራት ለሚያደርጉት የበካይ ጋዝ ቅነሳ እንቅስቃሴ ያደጉ አገራት ድጋፍ የሚያደርጉበት ነው።

(ኢዜአ)

የበካይ ጋዝ ቅነሳ ፕሮጀክት የአረንጓዴ ኢኮኖሚ ልማትን ከዳር ለማድረስ ይረዳል

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መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም4 5መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም

አዲስ አበባ ጥቅምት 6/2007 የግብጽ ባለኃብቶች በኢትዮጵያ ባለው የኢንቨስመንት አማራጭ በስፋት በመሰማራት ተጠቃሚ እንዲሆኑ የኢንዱስትሪ ሚኒስቴር ጠየቀ።

በኢንዱስትሪ ውጤቶችና ቴክኖሎጂ ላይ ያተኮረ ዓለም አቀፍ የንግድ ትርዒት ዛሬ በአዲስ አበባ ኤግዚቢሸን ማዕከል ተከፍቷል።

በንግድ ትርዒቱ 80 የውጭ ኩባንያዎች ተሳታፊ ሲሆኑ ከዚህ ውስጥ 70 ያህሉ የግብጽ ኩባንያዎች ናቸው።

የኢንዱስትሪ ሚኒስትር ዴኤታ ዶክተር መብራቱ መለስ የንግድ ትርዒቱን ሲከፍቱ እንዳሉት ኢትዮጵያ እያስመዘገበች ያለው ፈጣን ዕድገት የፈጠረው ሰፊ የገበያ አጋጣሚ ለግብጽ ባለኃብቶች ትልቅ ዕድል

የግብጽ ባለኃብቶች በኢትዮጵያ ባለው የኢንቨስመንት አማራጭ በስፋት እንዲሰማሩ ሚኒስቴር ጠየቀ

መሆን የሚችል ነው።

ኢትዮጵያ ያላት ምቹ የኢንቨስትመንት ፖሊሲና ከባቢ ከሰፊ ገበያዋ ጋር ተዳምሮ ለኢንቨስትመንት ተመራጭ መደራሻ እንደሚያደርጋት ገልጸዋል።

በመሆኑም ግብፃውያን ባለኃብቶች ይህን ዕድል ተጠቅመው በኢትዮጵያ ኃብታቸውን ቢያፈሱ ተጠቃሚ መሆን እንደሚችሉ ነው ሚኒስትር ዴኤታው ያመለከቱት።

የአገሪቱ የትኩረት አቅጣጫ በሆነው የማኑፋክቸሪንግ ዘርፍ ላይ የተሰማሩ የግብጽ ባለኃብቶች በንግድ ትርዒቱ ላይ መገኘታቸው ለአገር ውስጥ ባለኃብቶች ልምዳቸውን ለማጋራት መልካም አጋጣሚ እንደሆነም ገልጸዋል።

በኢትዮጵያ የግብጽ ኤምባሲ የንግድ አማካሪ የሆኑት ዋሪድ አልዛማር በበኩላቸው በኢትዮጵያ ሰፊ የገበያ ዕድል መኖሩን ጠቅሰው ግብፃውያን ባለኃብቶች ይህን ዕድል ተጠቅመው አገሪቱ ውስጥ በኢንቨስትመንት ዘርፍ ለመሰማራት ያላቸው ፍላጎት መጨመሩን ተናግረዋል።

በአገሪቷ በመመዝገብ ላይ ያለው ተከታታይ የኢኮኖሚ ዕድገትና ሰፊ የገበያ አጋጣሚ ለግብፅ ባለሃብቶች አማራጭ መሆኑንም አረጋግጠዋል።

ይህ በእንዲህ እንዳለ የግብጽ የህትመት ቻምበርና ፓኬጂንግ ኢንዱስትሪ ከኢትዮጵያ የህትመት ማህበር በጋራ መሥራት የሚያስችላቸውን የጋራ የመግባቢያ ሰነድ ተፈራርሟል።

የኢትዮጵያ የህትመት ማህበር ዋና ሥራ አስፈፃሚ አቶ ዘነበ ደነቀ ለኢትዮጵያ ዜና አገልግሎት እንደተናገሩት ስምምነቱ ሁለቱ አገሮች በህትመት በኩል በቅርበት መሥራት የሚያስችል ነው።

የግብጽ የህትመት ቻምበርና ፓኬጂንግ ኢንዱስትሪ ኃላፊ ካሊድ አብዶ በበኩላቸው ግብጽ በህትመት ዘርፍ የደረሰችበትን ዕድገት ለኢትዮጵያ ለማካፈል ዝግጁ መሆኗን ተናግረው በአጭር ጊዜ ውስጥ ተግባራዊ እንቅስቃሴዎች ይጀመራሉ ብለዋል።

በዚህ ለሦስት ቀናት በሚቆየው የንግድ ትርኢት ላይ ከ80 በላይ ዓለም አቀፍ ኩባንያዎች ተካፋይ ሆነዋል።

(ኢዜአ)

አዲስ አበባ ጥቅምት 6/2007 በሥራ ላይ ያለው የአሽከርካሪዎች ብቃት

ማረጋገጫ ወይም የመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ሥርዓት ዳግም ሊጤን እንደሚገባው አንዳንድ አሽከርካሪዎችና የአሽከርካሪዎች አሠልጣኞች አስገነዘቡ።

የፌዴራል ትራንስፖርት ባለሥልጣን በበኩሉ ከማሽከርከር ክህሎት ባሻገር የባህሪና የአስተሳሰብ ሥልጠና በመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ሥርዓቱ መካተቱ በዋናነት የአደጋ መንስኤ የሆኑትን የባህሪና የአመለካከት ክፍተቶችን ማረም የቻለ መሆኑን ገልጿል።

አስተያየታቸውን ለኢዜአ የሰጡ አንዳንድ አሽከርካሪዎች፣ የአሽከርካሪዎች አሠልጣኞችና የተለያዩ የኅብረተሰብ ክፍሎች እንደገለጹት አሁን ሥራ ላይ ያለው የመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ሥርዓት ችግሮች አሉበት።

በመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ሥርዓቱ ላይ የተለያዩ ደረጃዎች ቢኖሩም ስለተሽከርካሪ በቂ ዕውቀትና ክህሎት የሌላቸውና ልምድ ያላዳበሩ አሽከርካሪዎች ከባድ መኪና ማሽከርከር የሚያስችል ፈቃድ መሰጠቱ አሉታዊ ተጽዕኖ እያሳደረ መሆኑን ገልጸዋል።

ይህ ደግሞ ለትራፊክ አደጋ መበራከት ዓይነተኛ አስተዋጽኦ እያደረገ መሆኑን ነው የሚናገሩት።

አሽከርካሪዎቹና አሠልጣኞቹ እንዳሉት ቀድሞ በነበረው አሰራር አሽከርካሪዎች በየደረጃው የመንዳት ልምዳቸውን በማዳበር ከባድ መኪና ለመያዝ ብቁ የሚሆኑበት ዕድል እንደነበር ገልጸዋል።

ነገር ግን ከቅርብ ዓመታት ወዲህ የሚገባውን ያህል ልምድ ሳያዳብሩ ከባድ መኪና የሚያሽከረክሩ አሽከርካሪዎች መኖራቸው አግባብ አለመሆኑን ተናግረዋል።

የታክሲ አሽከርካሪው ወጣት ብርሀኑ ጥላሁንና የአንበሳ አውቶብስ አሽከርካሪው አቶ ዮሴፍ ታደሰ በሰጡት አስተያየት በአሁኑ ወቅት መንጃ ፈቃድ የሚያወጡ ሰዎች ስለመኪናና ስለመንገድ ህግ ብዙ ልምድ የሌላቸው በመሆኑ አደጋ የማድረስ እድላቸው ሰፊ ነው።

ሰሚት ለስላስ ማምረቻ ፋብሪካ በሚገኘው የከባድ መኪና አሽከርካሪዎች ማሠልጠኛ መምህር የሆኑት አቶ አወቀ ጌታቸውና አቶ ሽመልስ መንገሻም ቀደም ሲል ስለመኪና ምንም ዕውቀት ያልነበረውን ሰው በቀጥታ 5ኛ መንጃ ፈቃድ አውጥቶ ከባድ መኪና የሚይዝበት አሰራር መኖሩ ለአደጋ አጋላጭ ብለዋል።

በስልጠና ሂደቱ ለአንድ አሽከርካሪ ብቁ መሆን እንደ መመዘኛ የሚቀርቡት ፈተናዎች አሽከርካሪው መኪናውን ማንቀሳቀስ መቻሉን እንጂ መኪናውን ይዞ ወደ መንገድ ለመግባት ብቁ መሆኑን እንደማያረጋግጡም አስረድተዋል።

ከዚህ አንፃር ቀድሞ በነበረው የመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ሥርዓት የላቀ የማሽከርከር ልምድ የሚጠይቁ ከባድ መኪኖችን ለመያዝ የሚቻለው በየዓመቱ ደረጃ በደረጃ ለየተሽከርካሪዎቹ የሚያስፈልገው ፈቃድ በማውጣትና በዛው መጠን ልምድ በማዳበር እንደነበር አስታውሰዋል።

«ቀድሞ 5ኛ መንጃ ፈቃድ ለማውጣት እስከ አራት ዓመት ይፈጅ እንደነበር የገለፁት አሠልጣኞቹ አሁን ግን በሦስት ወራት ጊዜ ውስጥ 5ኛ መንጃ ፈቃድ መያዝ ይቻላል» ነው ያሉት።

የጉለሌ ክፍለ ከተማ ትራፊክ ፖሊስ አባል ሳጂን ዓብይ ተክሉ በበኩላቸው በቀድሞውና አሁን ባለው መንጃ ፈቃድ የሚደርሱ አደጋዎች ተለ ይተው የታዩበት ሁኔታ አለመኖሩን ገልጸዋል።

ሆኖም መኪና ለማሽ ከርከር ከሚያስፈል ገው ልምድ አንፃር አሽ

ከርካሪው በየደረጃው ልምዱን እያዳበረ መምጣት እንዳለበትና መንግሥትም ለጉዳዩ ትኩረት ሊሰጠው እንደሚገባ አሳስበዋል።

በአሁኑ ወቅት የሚሰጠው መንጃ ፈቃድ ጥራቱን የጠበቀ ካለመሆኑ ጋር ተያይዞ የትራፊክ አደጋውን እያባባሰው መምጣቱንም ጠቁመዋል።

የፌዴራል ትራንስፖርት ባለስልጣን ዋና ዳይሬክተር አቶ ካሳሁን ኃይለማሪያም አሁን ያለው የመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ስርዓት አሽከርካሪዎች መኪና ከመንዳት ባሻገር ስለመኪናውና ስለ ስራው ባህሪ የተሟላ እውቀት እንዲኖራቸው የሚያደርግ ነው።

ይህም የአሽከርካሪነት ሙያ እንደሙያ እንዲታይና አሽከርካሪው ከሙያው በተጨማሪ የሚሰጠው የትራንስፖርት አገልግሎት በሚጠይቀው የአስተሳሰብና የባህሪ ክህሎት ብቁ እንዲሆን የሚያስችል ነው ብለዋል።

በርካታ የትራፊክ አደጋዎች ከማሽከርከር ብቃት ማነስ ሳይሆን በባህሪና በአመለካከት ችግር የሚደርሱ መሆኑን ጥናቶች የሚያሳዩ በመሆኑ ስልጠናው አሽከርካሪዎች የባህሪ ለውጥ እንዲያመጡ የሚያስችል እንዲሆን መደረጉን ተናግረዋል።

ሆኖም በስርዓቱ ውስጥ ያሉ ባለድርሻ አካላት ማለትም አሽከርካሪዎች፣ አሰልጣኞችና የሙያ ብቃት የሚያረጋግጠው

አካል ኃላፊነታቸውን በአግባቡ በመወጣት ረገድ የአፈፃፀም ክፍተት እንዳለባቸው ዳይሬክተሩ አልሸሸጉም።

አሰራሩ ለአደጋ እያጋለጠ ነው የሚባለው ቀደም ሲል በነበረው አሰራር ማሰልጠኛ ተቋማት አንድን ሰልጣኝ ደጋግመው ስለሚያገኙትና ተጠቃሚም ስለነበሩ ገበያ ልናጣ ነው ከሚል ስጋት የመጣ ዘመቻ ነው ብለዋል።

ማሰልጠኛዎቹ አንድን አሽከርካሪ ብቁ ነው፣ በየትኛውም ቦታ ማሽከርከር ይችላል ብለው ካሰለጠኑ በኋላ እንደገና ብቁ አይደለም ማለታቸው የራሳቸውን ድክመት የሚያሳይ መሆኑን ጠቁመዋል።

‹›የረጅም ጊዜ የትራፊክ አደጋ መረጃዎች ከ5 ዓመት በላይ የማሽከርከር ልምድ ያላቸው አሽከርካሪዎች በብዛት አደጋ እንደሚያደርሱ ያመላክታሉ›› ያሉት ደግሞ የአዲስ አበባ ትራፊክ ፖሊስ ፅህፈት ቤት የህዝብ ግንኙነት ባለሙያ ረዳት ኢንስፔክተር አሰፋ መዝገቡ ናቸው።

ሆኖም አሁን በስራ ላይ ያለው መንጃ ፈቃድ አሠጣጥ በአገራችን ካለው ተጨባጭ ሁኔታ፣ ከማሰልጠኛ ቦታዎችና መሰል ቅድመ ሁኔታዎች አንፃር ለአደጋ የሚኖረው አስተዋጽኦ ጥናት ያስፈልገዋል ነው ያሉት።

እነዚህን ቅድመ ሁኔታዎች ከግምት ያስገባና አቅምን ያገናዘበ አሰራር ቢኖር የተሻለ መሆኑንም ጠቁመዋል ረዳት ኢንስፔክተር አሰፋ መዝገቡ።

የአዲስ አበባ ፖሊስ ኮሚሽን የህዝብ ግንኙነት ባለሙያ ኮማንደር ፋሲካ ፈንቴ ‹›በቀድሞውና በአዲሱ መንጃ ፈቃድ አማካኝነት የሚደርሰው የአደጋ ብዛት ከመንገዱና ከወቅቱ የአገሪቱ ነባራዊ ሁኔታ አንፃር መታየት አለበት›› ባይ ናቸው።

ይህ ባልሆነበት ሁኔታ ሙሉ በሙሉ አዲሱ መንጃ ፈቃድ አደጋ እያደረሰ ነው ብሎ መደምደም አስቸጋሪ መሆኑን ተናግረዋል።በፖሊስ ኮሚሽኑ በኩል የዚህንና ሌሎች በትራፊክ አደጋ ዙሪያ ያሉ ችግሮችን መንስኤ ለማወቅ የሚያስችል ጥናት እየተሰራ መሆኑንና በቅርቡም የጥናቱ ውጤት ይፋ እንደሚሆን ተናግረዋል።

የጥናቱን ውጤት ተከትሎ የመፍትሄ እርምጃዎች ይወሰ ዳሉ ብለዋል።

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የመንጃ ፈቃድ አሰጣጥ ሥርዓት ዳግም ሊጤን ይገባል

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ጥያቄ፡ አዲሰ አበባ ሒልተን ሆቴልን ለየት የሚያደርጉት አይነተኛ መገለጫዎችን ቢገልፁልን?

ሚስተር ሀኮን፡ አዲስ አበባ ሒልተን ሲመሰረት የከተማዋንና የሀገሪቷን ታሪካዊ እሴቶች በሚያሳይ መልኩ እንዲሆን ታቅዶ የተሰራ ነው፡፡ የሕንፃው ዲዛይን ታላቁን የላሊበላ ውቅር አብያተ ክርስትያን እንዲመስል ተደርጎ የሰራ ሲሆን የመዋኛ ገንዳውም የላሊበላን መስቀል ይመስላል፡፡ ለመዋኛ የሚውለው ፍልውሀም ለከተማዋም ሆነ ለአለም አቀፍ ጎብኝዎች እጅግ አስደሳች መስህብና ተመራጭ የሚያደርገው ነው፡፡

ጥያቄ፡ አዲስ አበባ በፍጥነት እያደገች ያለች ከተማ እንደመሆኗ በከተማዋ በርካታ ደረጃቸውን የጠበቁ ሆቴሎች በመገንባት ላይ ይገኛሉ፡፡ ተገንብተው ስራ የጀመሩትም በርካታ ናቸው፡፡ ከዚህ አንፃር አሁንም ሒልተን ሆቴል ተወዳዳሪ የማንልበት ደረጃ ላይ ተደርሷልና እርስዎ በዚህ ካልተስማሙ መከራከሪያዎ ምንድነው?

ሚስተር ሀኮን፡ ሒልተን ሆቴል ኢትዮጵያን ጨምሮ በመላው ዓለም ከፍተኛ ዝና ያካበተ መሆኑ ብቻ ሳይሆን በኢትዮጵም ለሆቴሎችና ቱሪዝም ኢንዱስትሪ መስፋፋት ፈር ቀዳጅ ከሆኑት አንዱ ነው፡፡ ባለፉት 45 ዓመታት አዲስ አበባ በርካታ ለውጦችን አሳይታለች፡፡የሆቴሎች መልካም መስተንግዶ ለከተማዋ ሁለንተናዊ እድገት በተለይ ለኢኮኖሚው

ሒልተን - ለሀገራችን ሆቴልና ቱሪዝም ኢንዱስትሪ ፈር ቀዳጅ ሆቴል

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በፊት በካይሮ ናይል ሒልተን ሆቴል ዳይሬክተር ሆነው እንደነበር ይናገራሉ፡፡ ሒልተን የሚለው ስም ዛሬ በመላው ዓለም ከፍተኛ እውቅናና ዝና ካላቸው ጥቂት ስሞች መሀከል ተጠቃሽ ነው፡፡ሚስተር ሀኮን ከታዲያስ መፅሔት ጋር ባደረጉትን ውይይትም እንደናገሩት ቱሪዝም ኢንዱስትሪው

ገና በአገራችን ሳይስፋፋ በርካታ የውጭ ሀገር ጎብኝዎችንና የአፍሪካ መንግስታት ልዑካንን ተቀብሎ በድንቅ የአገልግሎት ብቃት በማስተናገድ ለኢትዮጵያ ይህ ነው የማይባል ውለታ ሲሰጥ ቆይቷል፤ እየሰጠም ይገኛል-ሒልተን ሆቴል፡፡ በአፄ ኃይለ ሥላሴ መሪነት የተለያዩ ዓለም አቀፍ ልዑካንን ባካተተ ስነስርዓት በ1961 ዓ.ም. ስራ የጀመረው ሒልተን ሆቴል ለቱሪዝም ኢንዱስትሪ መስፋፋትና ለኢትዮጵያ የግሉ ዘርፍ እድገት አርአያ ነው ሲሉ የሆቴሉ ዋና ስራ አስኪያጅ ሚስተር ሀኮን ጋርደር ላርሰን በመስከረም ወር 2007ዓ.ም. መጀመሪያ ላይ አሜሪካን ሀገር ከሚገኘው ለእውቁ ታደያስ መፅሄት ገልፀዋል፡፡

ሒልተን ሆቴል ላለፉት 46 ዓመታት የከተማዋ ኩራት በመሆን የከተማዋን እድገት ሲመሰክር የኖረና ዛሬም ከተማዋ ከምትኮራባቸው ዓለም አቀፍ ደረጃ ካላቸው በጣት ከሚቆጠሩ ሆቴሎች ግንባር ቀደም ተጠቃሽ ነው፡፡

ዋና ስራ አስኪያጁ ከታዲያስ መፅሄት ዝግጅት ክፍል ጋር ባደረጉት ቃለ ምልልስ በአዲስ አበባ ሒልተን ስራ አስኪያጅ የሆኑት በ2006ዓ.ም ሲሆን ከዚያ ቀደም ሲል በአውሮፓ፣ በሰሜን አሜሪካ፣ በመካከለኛው ምስራቅና በተለያዩ የአፍሪካ ሀገራት ከ26 ዓመታት በላይ በስራ አስኪያጅነት አገልግለዋል፡፡ ባልደረባችን እንዳለ አሰፋ ቃለ መጠይቁን ወደ አማርኛ በመተርጎም እንደሚከተለው ባጭሩ አቅርቦታል፡፡ በዚህ አጋጣሚ ታዲያስ መፅሄትን በኢትዮ-ቻምበር ጋዜጣ ዝግጅት ክፍል ስም እናመሰግናለን፡፡

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መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም6 7መስከረም 2007 ዓ.ም

ደህንነት የሚያበረክተው አስረተዋፅኦ የማይናቅ ነው፡፡ ሒልተን ሆቴልን ለየት የሚያደርገው ዓለማቀፋዊ አሰራርን ስለሚከተል እንግዶቻችን የካምፓኒውን ሎያሊቲ ፕሮግራም ተጠቃሚ የሚያደርግ አሰራር አለን፡፡ ከ40 ሚሊዮን በላይ አባላት በመላው ዓለም ያለው ሂልተን ሆቴል አባላት በመላው ዓለም ያለው ሒልተን ከመደበኛው ፕሮግራም በዘለለ እጅግ አስደሳችና በየጊዜው እያደጉ የሚሄዱ የተለያዩ ጥቅማ ጥቅሞችን የሚሰጥ በ93 ሀገሮች ከ4200 በላይ ሆቴሎች ያሉት አንጋፋ ተቋም ነው፡፡ኢትዮጵያም የዚህ ፕሮግራም ተጠቃሚ ናት፡፡ በመሆኑም አዲስ አበባ ተቀዳሚ የመዝናኛና የቢዝነስ መዳረሻ እንድትሆን ከ40 ሚሊዮን በላይ የሚሆኑ ጎብኚዎቻችን እንድትጎበኝ አጋጣሚን ይፈጥራል፡፡የአዲስ አባባ ሒልተን ሌላው ለየት ያለ ገፅታው ጊቢው ነው፡፡በርካታ ምግብ ቤቶችና የተለያዩ ዓይነት የመጠጥ መስተንግዶ የሚያቀርቡ ክፍሎችን ጠቅልሎ በአንድ የያዘ ግዙፍ ሆቴል ነው፡፡ከዋናው የከፋ የባህል ሬስቶራንት ጀምሮ የእስያ፣ የመካከለኛው ምስራቅ፣ የጣልያን ባህል ምግቦች ከብዙዎቹ ጥቂቶቹ ሲሆኑ ዝነኛው የጋዜቦ ባርና ሬስቶራንት፣ እንዲሁም በመዋኛ ገንዳው አካባቢ የሚገኘውና ላካርቴ ሜኑ የሚስተናግድበት ቦታ ልዩ መስህብ ናቸው፡፡በተጨማሪም የማሳጅ ፣ ሳውና ፣ ስቲም፣ ጃኩዚ፣ እና ለሴቶችም ሆነ ለወንዶች የተዘጋጁት የውበት ሳሎኖቻችን እንግዶቻችን የሚፈልጉትን ሁሉ እንዲያገኙ ታስበው የተሰሩ ናቸው፡፡

ሌላው የሒልተን ሆቴል ሚስጥር እንግዶቻችን ረዘም ላሉ ጊዜያቶች ዘና ብለው እንዲቆዩ ለማድረግ ምቹ አፓርትመንቶችን ያሉት መሆናቸው ነው፡፡ ለእያንዳንዱ እንግዳ በስሙ የተዘጋጀ የፓርኪንግ አገልግሎት ስለምንሰጥ የእንግዶቻችን ግላዊ ምቾታቸው (privacy) ሳይጓደልባቸው ቆይታቸው ያማረ ይሆናል፡፡ ሌላው የሒልተን ሆቴል ባለሙያዎችን የሚመለከት ነው፡፡ የኛ ባለሙያዎች በርካታ ስልጠናዎችን የወሰዱ ናቸው፡፡ በመሆኑም ባለሙያዎቻችን እንግዶቻችንን ፍላጎት ማሟላት ብቻ ሳይሆን ፍላጎታቸውን ቀደም ብለው ተረድተው የሚንቀሳቀሱ ናቸው፡፡ የሰዎችን ስሜት በቀላሉ የሚረዱ ናቸው፡፡ ለጥቃቅን ነገሮች ጭምር ቦታ የሚሰጡና ሁል ጊዜ ንቁ እንዲሆኑ ተደርገው በደንብ የተቀረፁ ናቸው፡፡

በመሆኑም ደንበኞቻችን የቤተሰቦቻ ቸውን ሰርግ እኛ ጋር ማድረግ ይመር ጣሉ፡፡ በርካታ ጎልማሶችም የልጅነት ትዝታ ሰንቆ ከሒልተን ሆቴል ቅጥር ጊቢ መራቅ አይፈልጉም፡፡ በተለይ ለረጅም ጊዜ በውጭ ኖረው ወደ ሀገር ቤት የሚመለሱ ኢትዮጵያዊያን በሂልተን ሆቴል ጊዜያቸውን ማሳለፍ ያስደስታቸዋል፡፡ ይህም ሂልተን ሆቴል በሀገሪቱ ረጅም አመታት ያገለገለ በመሆኑ የልጅነት ቁርኝት ትዝታ አብሮዋቸው ስላለ ነው፡፡

ጥያቄ፡- አዲስ አበባ የአፍሪካ መዲና እና የተለያዩ አለም አቀፍ ተቋማት መቀመጫ በመሆኗ ሒልተን ሀገሪቷ ይህን ማስተናገድ እንድትችል ያደረገው ሚና ምንድነው?

ሚስተር ሀኮን፡ ሒልተን በአዲስ አበባ ከተቋቋመበት ዕለት ጀምሮ እነዚህን ሀገሪቷ የሚመጡ እንግዶችን በብቃት በማስተናገድና የዓለም አቀፉን የዲፕሎማቲክ ኮሚዩኒቲ ፍላጎቶች በብቃት በማርካት በርካታ ልምድ ያካበተ ነው፡፡ እንደየፍላጎታቸው መጠን ሊሰፉና ሊጠቡ የሚችሉ ጥሩ ጥሩ የኮንፈረንስ አዳራሾች ያሉት ሲሆን በተሳታፊዎች ብዛት ተለክተው ሊሰፉ የሚችሉ በመሆናቸው ከሌሎች መሰል አዳራሾች ተመራጭ ናቸው፡፡e

አዲስ አበባ ጥቅምት 4/2007 ከ500 በላይ የአዝርዕትና የሆርቲካልቸር ናሙናዎችን

በማሰባሰብ ላይ መሆኑን የኢትዮጵያ ብዝሃ ህይወት ጥበቃ ኢንስቲትዩት አስታወቀ። ህብረተሰቡ በየአካባቢው የሚገኙ የብዝሃ ህይወት ሃብቶችን በመጠበቅና በመንከባከብ የነቃ ተሳትፎ እንዲያደርግም ጠይቋል።

በኢንስቲትዩቱ የአዝርዕትና የሆርቲካልቸር ብዝሃ ህይወት ዳይሬክተር አቶ ደላሳ አንጋሳ ለኢትዮጵያ ዜና አገልግሎት እንደተናገሩት ናሙናዎች የሚሰበሰቡት ከፍተኛ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ጠቀሜታ ካላቸውና ዝርያቸው እየተመናመነ ከመጣ አገር በቀል እጽዋት ነው።

ኢትዮጵያ ያላት ስነ ምህዳርና የአፈር ተለያይነት የበርካታ ዝርያቸውና የተለያዩ አገር በቀል እጽዋት ባለቤት እንድትሆን አስችሏታል። እነዚህን ሃብቶች በሚገባ ተጠብቀው በዘለቄታዊ መንገድ ጥቅም ላይ እንዲውሉ ሁሉም ህብረተሰብ የነቃ ተሳትፎ ማድረግ አለበት ብለዋል።

የብዝሃ ህይወት ሃብቶች በአግባቡ ከተጠበቁና ከለሙ ቀጣይነት ላለው፣ ለተፋጠነ የኢኮኖሚ እድገትና ለኑሮ

ኢንስቲትዩቱ ከ500 በላይ የአዝርዕትና የሆርቲካልቸር ናሙናዎችን እያሰባሰበ ነው

ተስማሚ የሆነ አካባቢን ለመፍጠር ትልቅ አስተዋጽኦ እንደሚኖረው ተናግረዋል።

በሁሉም የአገሪቱ የስነ ምህዳር የሚገኙትን የአዝርዕትና የሆርቲካልቸር እጽዋት በመሰብሰብ ከጥፋት ለመታደግ እየሰሩ መሆኑን ጠቁመው በዘንድሮው አመት ብቻ እስከ አሁን ያልተሰበሰቡ 500 ናሙናዎችን ለመሰብሰብ መታቀዱን አብራርተዋል። የሚሰበሰቡትን ዝርያዎች በመስክ ዘረ-መል ባንክና በቤተ ሙከራ በመጠበቅና በመንከባከብ ከትውልድ ወደ ትውልድ እንዲተላለፉ የማድረግ ስራ እየተከናወነ መሆኑንም ነው የገለጹት።

እስከ አሁን ከተሰበሰቡ 76 ሺህ ናሙናዎች መካከል ከ50 በመቶ በላይ በቤተሙከራ የባህሪ ትንተናና ግምገማ ተካሂዶ መረጃው በዶክመንት መልክ ተዘጋጅቷል።

በዚህ ዓመትም ከ1 ሺህ 400 በላይ ናሙናዎችን ባህሪ ለመተንተንና ለመገምገም ታቅዷል ብለዋል። ኢንስቲትዩቱ ለተለያዩ የፌደራልና የክልል የምርምር ተቋማት፣ ዩኒቨርስቲዎችና ተመራማሪዎች ለምርምር የሚውሉ ከ8 ሺህ በላይ ናሙናዎችን ለማሰራጨት እየሰራ ነው።

በትግራይ፣ በአማራ፣ በኦሮሚያና በደቡብ ክልሎች 12 ማህበራዊ የዘር ባንኮች በማቋቋም የጥበቃ ስራ እየተከናወነ መሆኑን አቶ ደላሳ ገልጸዋል።

በቀጣይም ከላብራቶሪ በተጨማሪ እጽዋት ባሉበትና በተላመዱበት ቦታ እንዲጠበቁ የሚያደርግ አሰራር እንደሚዘረጋ አስረድተዋል። በኢንስቲትዩቱ የአዝርዕትና ሆርቲካልቸር ረዳት ተመራማሪ ወይዘሮ ያለም ተስፋዬ በበኩላቸው የሚሰበሰቡ ናሙናዎችን የእርጥበት መጠናቸውን በመለካት ለረጅም ጊዜ እንዳይበላሹ በማቀዝቀዣ ክፍል ይቀመጣሉ ብለዋል።

ዝርያዎችን በቤተ ሙከራ ማስቀመጥ እጽዋትን ከአየር ንብረት ለውጥ ጉዳት ከማዳን በተጨማሪ ተመራማሪዎች በቀላሉ እንዲያገኟቸው እድል በመፍጠር የምርምር ተቋማት የተሻሻሉ ዝርያዎችን እንዲያወጡ ያግዛል ነው ያሉት።

እንደ ተመራማሪዋ ገለጻ ድርቅና በሽታን የመቋቋም አቅም ያላቸው፣ ቶሎ መድረስ የሚችሉና የተሻለ ምርት የሚሰጡ የአዝርዕት ናሙናዎችን በመለየት ለረጅም ጊዜ እንዲቆዩ ይደረጋል። ይህም ከመስክ ላይ ዝርያቸው በሚጠፋበት ወቅት በቀላሉ ለመተካትና ለቀጣዩ ትውልድ ለማስተላለፍ ያግዛል።

በቀጣይም እጽዋትን ባሉበት ቦታና በላብራቶሪ በአግባቡ በመጠበቅና በመን ከባከብ በዘለቄታዊ መንገድ ጥቅም ላይ እንዲውሉ ይሰራል ብለዋል።

(ኢዜአ)

አዲስ አበባ መስከረም 20/2007 ኢትዮጵያና ግብፅ ከአባይ ወንዝ ባለፈ በጋራ ሊሰሩ የሚችሉባቸው

በርካታ አጀንዳዎች መኖራቸውን የሁለቱም አገሮች አምባሳደሮች አስታወቁ።

በግብፅ የኢትዮጵያ አምባሳደር ማህሙድ ድሪርና በኢትዮጵያ የግብጽ አምባሳደር መሐመድ ኢድሪስ ለኢዜአ እንደገለጹት አገሮቹ ከአባይ ወንዝና ከህዳሴው ግድብ ባለፈ በቅንጅት ሊሰሩ የሚችሉባቸው ጉዳዮች በርካታ ናቸው።

ሁለቱም አገራት በጋራ የሚሰሩባቸውን አጀንዳዎች ባሳደጉት ቁጥር በታላቁ የኢትዮጵያ ህዳሴ ግድብና በአባይ ወንዝ ተጠቃሚነት ዙሪያ የሚያደርጓቸው ውይይቶች ስኬታማ እንደሚሆኑ አምባሳደሮቹ ተናግረዋል።

አገሮቹ በአባይ ወንዝ ዙሪያ ብቻ የተመሰረተ ወዳጅነት እንደሌላቸውና በጋራ ተጠቃሚ የሚያደርጓቸው በርካታ ሌሎች ጉዳዮች እንዳሉ አምባሳደር ማህሙድ ተናግረዋል።

በታላቁ የህዳሴ ግድብ ላይ የግብፃውያንን አመለካከት የሚቀይሩ ሥራዎችን ኤምባሲው በማከናወን ላይ እንደሚገኝም አምባሳደር ማህሙድ ተናግረዋል ።

በኢትዮጵያ የግብፅ አምባሳደር መሐመድ ኢድሪስ በበኩላቸው የአገሮቹ ወዳጅነት ታሪካዊና ረጅም ዓመታትን ያስቆጠረ ቢሆንም፣ በአባይ ወንዝ ላይ ብቻ ተመስርቶ መቆየቱ ስህተት መሆኑን ገልጸዋል።

በተሳሳተ የፖለቲካ አካሄድ ምክንያት ሁለቱም አገሮች ያላቸውን ከፍተኛ አቅም ለጋራ ጥቅሞች እንዳይጠቀሙበት አድርጓቸዋል ያሉት አምባሳደር መሐመድ፣ነገር ግን በጋራና ቅንጅት ሊሰሩ የሚችሉባቸው በርካታ አቅሞች መኖራቸውን አስታውቀዋል።

የአገሮቹ የንግድና ኢንቨስትመንት መጠን ከ250 ሚሊዮን ዶላር በላይ ደርሷል።

ኢትዮጵያ ወደ ግብፅ የእንስሳት ተዋጽኦዎች፤ የቅባት እህሎችና ጥራጥሬ ትልካለች። ከግብፅ ወደ ኢትዮጵያ የሚገቡ የታሸጉ ምግቦች፤የግንባታ ቁሳቁስ፤ የኤሌክትሪክ ምርቶችና መድኃኒት ናቸው።

አምባሳደር መሐመድ እንዳሉት የአገሮቹ የንግድና ኢንቨስትመንት መጠን ማደግ እንዳለበትና መጠኑን ለማሳደግ በርካታ ምቹ ሁኔታዎች መኖራቸውን ይናገራሉ።

ለአብነት ያህልም የአገሮቹ የህዝብ ቁጥር በአፍሪካ በቀዳሚነት የሚገኝ መሆኑ ከፍተኛ የምርትና የገበያ ትስስር ለመፍጠር ያስችላቸዋል።

አገራቸው ግብፅ ከኢትዮጵያ ጋር

ያላትን ወዳጅነት በተለይ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ግንኙነቷን ለማጠናከር የተለያዩ እርምጃዎችን በመውሰድ ላይ እንደምትገኝ ተናግረዋል።

ከጥቅምት 22 እስከ 24 2007 ዓ.ም በውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትሩ የሚመራ የግብፅ የንግድና የኢንቨስትመንት አባላት ያቀፈ ዲፕሎማቶች፤ባለሥልጣናትና ሌሎች ባለድርሻ አካላት የተካተቱበት ልዑክ ወደ አዲስ አበባ በመምጣት ከኢትዮጵያ መሪዎችና የንግድ አካላት ጋር ይወያያሉ።

የኢትዮጵያና ግብፅ ወዳጅነት ጠቅላይ ሚኒስተር ሃይለማርያም ደሳለኝና ፕሬዘዳንት አብዱል ፋታህ አልሲሲ በአፍሪካ የመሪዎች ስብሰባ ወቅት በኢኳቶሪያል ጊኒ ማላቡ ከተማ ውይየቶችን ካደረጉ በኋላ በአዲስ ምዕራፍ እየተሻሻለ ሲሆን የግብፅ ውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስትርና የውሃና ሃብት ሚኒስትሩ ኢትዮጵያን መጎብኘታቸው ይታወቃል። የያዝነው 2014 የፈረንጆች አዲስ አመት ከመጠናቀቁ በፊት ፕሬዘዳንት አብዱል ፈታህ አልሲሲ ኢትዮጵያን ሊጎበኙ እንደሚችሉ ይጠበቃል።

የውሃ መስኖና ኢነርጂ ሚኒስተሩ አቶ አለማየሁ ተገኑ የሚመሩት የሁለቱን አገራት ወዳጅነት የሚያጠናክርና የህዝብ ለህዝብ ወዳጅነቱን ለማሳደግ የንግዱን ማህበረሰብ፤የሃይማኖት አባቶች፤የሴቶችና ወጣቶች እና የመንግስት አካላትን ያካተተ ቡድን ወደ ግብፅ ለመጓዝ ዝግጅት በማድረግ ላይ ነው።

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The most important ques-tion for a small businessinvestor is where to focus attention. What makes one company more inter-esting than another? There are 28 million small businesses in the U.S., but few research services. This provides great opportunities for above-market returns but also means investors must have an approach for determining which companies are worth focusing on. After many years of investing in private companies, I have devel-oped an initial framework–the first five things I look at when I see a new company.

This list is not intended to be all-inclusive; it’s intended only to serve as a starting point. Valua-tion and deal structure, for exam-ple, are critical (likely an entirely separate post). The principles be-hind this list could apply to many industries, but they are especially relevant to consumer and retail businesses, the industries in which I have the most experience.

1. Gross Margin. Gross margin is the percentage differ-ence between what a product sells for in the market (revenue) and what it costs to produce that prod-uct (cost of goods sold, or COGS). This ratio is critical because it is what allows a company to invest in all the other areas needed to get the product to market such as marketing and distribution.

Gross margins can vary by industry, and even by categories within an industry, but razor-thin

5 ESSEnTIAlS Of SmAll BUSInESS InVESTInG gross margins leave no room for

error. In private equity, I focused on investing in categories that had higher gross margins and thus could sustain increased costs more easily. Examples of higher gross margin categories include per-sonal care, premium pet food, and natural and organic products.

It’s very important to keep in mind that gross margin expansion is very difficult. Focusing on creat-ing products with better margins, automating production or getting lower prices for ingredients can help, but the instances where gross margin improvement drives out-sized investment returns are rare.

2. Brand Strength – This is often the toughest thing to assess in a small company, but an inves-tor needs to ask herself, “Does this brand offer something unique?” A great example of this is method, the eco-friendly cleaning products company (disclosure: Eric Ryan, the CEO of method, is a friend, and we have a quote from him on CircleUp). The world did not need another green cleaner, yet method created a special brand by packaging a quality product with beautiful design and distinctive packaging.

Customer/consumer surveys, “earned” media presence, and third-party data are good ways to start evaluating brand strength. In the consumer packaged goods (CPG) world, there are countless energy drinks and cleaning prod-ucts. But there’s a reason why Red

Bull and method have been huge successes while other products with similar recipes and formulas have failed: formulas can be cop-ied, brands cannot. A tech entre-preneur will not put her idea for a startup on a crowdfunding site (unless all other investors pass), because any engineer can copy it. But a consumer products company with $3 million in revenue would be comfortable talking about not just the idea, but the actual perfor-mance of the business. Why? Be-cause you can back into the recipe for Cherry Garcia from Ben and Jerry’s. It doesn’t matter. You can’t copy the brand.

3. CEO – In a small business, you are investing as much in the leadership as you are in the product or company. As a result, you need to invest behind a CEO in whom you believe. As part of your initial diligence, reference checks and third-party background checks are a must. Beyond that, there isn’t a formula for evaluating leadership talent but you should do what ev-ery investor does–spend time ask-ing questions. Get on a conference call and probe on issues you think are important. Does this person understand their business, have a passion for the product, and have what it takes to persevere?

4. Exit Prospects – many people think that if they build a great company there will always be a home for it, but in certain in-dustries that’s not the case. If the company has visions of selling to

a strategic acquirer, it should be able to 1) identify who these likely “strategics” are, 2) determine what their acquisition strategies have been, and 3) be able to explain why that business should be attractive to a strategic acquirer.

5. Recurring revenue – Recurring revenue is the portion of the revenue that is going to con-tinue in the future. It provides a nice base (ideally a growing base) of revenue on which management can rely while focusing on ways to grow the business. It’s especially valuable because the cost of ac-quiring a new customer is typically about six times the cost of keeping an existing customer.

In consumer products recur-ring revenue comes from repeat purchase. maybe you bought the product once because you liked the packaging. You buy it again because the product performed. It’s not enough, of course, to look to recurring revenue; the question is how frequently that revenue will recur. At a prior firm, we invest-ed in a shampoo company with a beautifully designed bottle (it won multiple awards) that dispensed shampoo in the exact proportions the average woman needed. The problem was that the average per-son usually uses a lot more sham-poo than is needed. As a result, consumers took 12-18 months longer than normal to use up our shampoo. Sounds great for the consumer, but it was problematic for the company because it delayed the repeat purchase cycle.

As I’ve said, this list is not intended to be all-inclusive; it does include steps, however, that should definitely be considered when evaluating an investment in most small businesses.

(Source: Forbes)

identifies the purchase criteria and is designed around that. Remember when toy manufacturers started putting a hole in their packages so kids could push the button to ex-perience the lights and sounds of action toys? Successful packaging starts by asking, why is a consumer buying this product? If it’s a food product, is it low-sodium, all-natu-ral, gluten-free, low-priced? At suc-cessful companies, the brand teams identify those factors and ensure they are reflected in the packaging. Otherwise the product, regardless of how good it is, may never move off the shelf.

Companies that execute well have a laser focus on making prod-

ucts that matter to consumers. They use data, research and testing, and maybe some gut instinct, to de-termine what the consumer wants, and then they build it.

Companies that claim “Con-sumers don’t know they want this, yet” will likely discover consumers had a perfectly valid reason for not wanting the product. Apple pulled this off brilliantly, but visionaries like Steve Jobs are the rare exception.

Those companies that do suc-ceed in taking risks in product development, follow lean startup principles. They develop a mini-

mum viable product (mVP), for ex-ample, setting milestones, prioritiz-ing work and measuring progress. Experimentation can be great. But it has to be experimentation fo-cused on delivering the company’s core value proposition.

4. Unit economics must pencil out. Execution around an idea that doesn’t scale will quickly hit a dead end. That’s why the great growth companies of our time stay focused on unit economics that scale. If the unit economics are bad early on, I’m always skeptical they can improve later on. There are plenty of examples of great ideas that will never become good businesses because the unit economics don’t pencil out.

I recently had dinner with the lead partner at one of our largest in-vestors. I asked him why he passed on the other online equity investing

platforms – as basically all of the Top 5 had pitched their firm. He talked about several things includ-ing the attractive unit economics that CircleUp had- and referenced the unit economics discussion I had with him and his team 12 months prior.

Every entrepreneur is passion-ate about his or her idea. But time and again we see dozens of startups with the same good idea. Ideas are not enough. Who remembers ma-gellan, lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Go, AltaVista, Snap or AOl Search? Each of these companies sought its own path toward the development of the best search engine. Their suc-cess turned on their execution. One executed this shared goal the best.

You know who it is, and even if you don’t, you can Google it.

(Source: Forbes)

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socio-economic growth performance, registering a double digit economic growth rate for the last decade. And hence, it has now become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

The improvement in Ethiopia’s growth performance has been due to a number of factors, but most impor-tantly, it is due to the fact that it has created a business friendly domestic environment which in turn has paved the way for rapid socio-economic growth through the adoption and im-plementation of economic policy re-forms conducive to the private sector.

“Ethiopia is a country endowed with untapped and immense invest-ment opportunities in the areas of ag-riculture, livestock, agro-processing, manufacturing, industry, construc-tion, real-estate and tourism, among others, which of course would be of interest to Swiss investors and if used skillfully, this would be to the inter-

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est and benefit of our two countries,” ECCSA Communication and Interna-tional Department Manager said.

Various trade and investment incentives such as duty and quota free rights for importing machiner-

ies, spare parts and inputs; exemp-tion from internal taxes, tax holiday and much more benefits the country provides ensure trade and investment activities with huge returns. More-over, the country enjoys duty and

quota free market access from vari-ous parts and countries of the world. The duty and quota free right under EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA) initia-tives, the vast market access through AGOA, can be cited as major instanc-es for this. Moreover, a broad range of manufactured goods from Ethiopia are bestowed with preferential ac-cess under the GSP to Canada, Japan, and other countries. In addition, India and China also entitle duty and quota free market access to most Ethiopian products. Not only that the country is an active member of the COMESA that provides access to 19 countries having a population of over 420 mil-lion, Ethiopia is also in the process to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ethiopia is also a member of MIGA. Hence, there is a strong and transparent investment protection and guarantee laws in Ethiopia.

Adisu further said that the role and contribution the business com-munity could play in speeding up the development of the trade and invest-ment relationship through such fora, economic cooperation, and invest-ment projects is indispensible.

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ECCSA building 7th floor room

no. 714.The center is dedicated to serve the private sector. Business Information, ITC Market Analysis Tools web portal is the access point to one of the world’s largest databases on trade statistics, tariff data, foreign direct investment data and voluntary standards (Trade Map, Investment Map, Market Access Map Standards Map) and WTO information from the WTO web portal, which help the business communities to identify market niches for the export of their products and services.

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Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations (ECCSA) and the Turkish Business and Indus-trialists Federation (Tuskon) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further cement the trade and investment ties between the two sis-terly nations. “I am confident that this business to business meeting between Ethiopian and Turkish business com-munity members would enhance these efforts” the Secretary General noted.

Ethiopia has witnessed a signifi-cant improvement in its overall socio-economic growth performance, regis-tering a double digit economic growth rate for the last decade. And hence, it has now become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. The im-provement in Ethiopia’s growth per-formance has been due to a number of factors, but most importantly, it is due to the fact that it has created a busi-ness friendly domestic environment which in turn has paved the way for rapid socio-economic growth through the adoption and implementation of economic policy reforms conducive to the private sector.

“Ethiopia is a country endowed with untapped and immense invest-ment opportunities in the areas of ag-riculture, livestock, agro-processing, manufacturing, industry, construction, real-estate and tourism, among others, which of course would be of interest

to Turkish investors and if used skill-fully, this would be to the interest and benefit of our two countries,” the Sec-retary General said.

Various trade and investment incentives such as duty and quota free rights for importing machiner-ies, spare parts and inputs; exemp-tion from internal taxes, tax holiday and much more benefits the country provides ensure trade and investment activities with huge returns. More-over, the country enjoys duty and quota free market access from various parts and countries of the world. The duty and quota free right under EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA) initia-tives, the vast market access through AGOA, can be cited as major instanc-es for this. Moreover, a broad range of manufactured goods from Ethiopia are bestowed with preferential access under the GSP to Canada, Japan, and other countries. In addition, India and China also entitle duty and quota free market access to most Ethiopian prod-ucts. Not only that the country is an active member of the COMESA that provides access to 19 countries hav-ing a population of over 420 million, Ethiopia is also in the process to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). Ethiopia is also a member of MIGA. Hence, there is a strong and transpar-ent investment protection and guaran-tee laws in Ethiopia.

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The single-window system is a trade facilitation idea. As such, the implementation of a single window system enables international (cross-border) traders to submit regulatory documents at a single location and/or single entity. Such documents are typically customs declarations, applications for import/export per-mits, and other supporting docu-ments such as certificates of origin and trading invoices.

The main value proposition for having a single window for a country or economy is to increase the efficiency through time and cost savings for traders in their dealings with government authorities for ob-taining the relevant clearance and

permit(s) for moving cargoes across national or economic borders. In a traditional pre-single-window en-vironment, traders may have had to contend with visits and dealings with multiple government agen-cies in multiple locations to obtain the necessary papers, permits, and clearances to complete their import or export processes.

By considering the above is-sues, government of Ethiopia has signed single window project agree-ment with Investment Climate Fa-cility for Africa ( ICF). The parties signed an agreement worth 7.3 mil-lion USD to establish an electronic Single Window (eSW) system for international trade.

Out of the estimated 7.3 million USD project cost, the government, ICF provide 2.4 million USD, 4.3 million USD respectively while the

By Staff WriterInternational Finance Corporation (IFC) - a member of the World Bank – 8 per cent of the total cost.

Ethiopian Chamber of Com-merce and Sectoral Associations, deeming the project facilitate trade and ease the burdensome, hectic, costly and time consuming proce-dures at different regulatory bodies that traders faced in doing inter-national trade, have been actively engaged in the implementation process early from the beginning. It is to be recall that in the launching ceremony of the project, former

Ethiopian Chamber of Com-merce and Sectoral Associations President W/ro Mulu Solomon said: “Whether we have good qual-ity product, if our custom process is low, taking time, taking money and too much bureaucracy, we are not going to be competitive. Having

one stop shopping means less mon-ey, less time, less cost and increased efficiency”

Ethiopian Chamber of Com-merce and Sectoral Associations (ECCSA), by representing the pri-vate sector is actively involving in both technical committee and steer-ing member of the electronic single window project so that the system helps the private sector to be com-petitive in the international market.

So far, it can be said the proj-ect is going according to its plan. The National Chamber is follow-ing closely for its implementation. According to the technical com-mittee member, beside Information Network Security Agency (INSA) is lately taking more time than ex-pected while checking the security issue relating to the project, it is go-ing according to the plan.

New Single Window System to ease customs service

There were search en-gines before Google, social networks be-fore facebook, and

lending platforms before lending Club . So how did these latecomers win? I find the answer interesting.

One word: Execution.

first-mover advantage is often an advantage squandered . Lending Club was at best the third online consumer lending platform when it arrived on the scene in 2007, but it grew into the market leader through its awesome execution of a clear vision, and it is now poised for what will likely be a blockbuster initial public offering.

Three years ago when I started our company, there were dozens (some say hundreds) of sites with the same idea: facilitate online in-vestments into private companies. Today, it’s clear to me why so many of these early market participants are no longer in existence, or have

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stalled out in their growth—they failed to execute.

You see it everywhere. Right across the street from our head-quarters in San francisco, I’ve been watching the difference between flawless and floundering execution for eight months.

Starbucks gutted a space and was serving lattes in 30 days. That’s the kind of execution that explains why Starbucks has more than 11,000 stores across the United States and $15 billion in annual revenue. Meanwhile, Noodles & Co. has had a nearly identical-sized space under construction since early this year—literally across the street. It took them 8 months to do what Starbucks did in 30 days. The final 2 weeks before Noodles opened? Training. True, Starbucks is mostly beverage and noodles is fast casu-al—but this doesn’t account for the 7 month gap. Execution does.

It’s easy to spot companies that execute: they are the lending Clubs, the Kickstarters, the Ubers, the Googles.

So what does it mean to ex-ecute? Here are my four rules of execution:

1. Have a stellar team: The better team will always win. Hir-ing smart people who under-stand collaboration and focus is essential. Often the better team will beat companies that have raised far more money or have already been around for years.

2. Have a clear vision: What is the company’s value proposition? What problem does the product or service solve? The leadership has to have a clear vision of what their company stands for, and it has to convey that vision to everyone in the company. If everyone—from marketing to product development to finance—understands the vision and values, the company is more likely to stay on course. All of those online private investing platforms that have stalled out? A common trait is most didn’t have a clear vision articulated on what problems they were solving. That’s a lack of vision.

Kickstarter has become the

largest crowd funding site because its founders understood that people looking to support cool concepts did not want to rummage through mountains of bad ideas. The com-pany set clear rules and took the controversial path of using community managers to review and curate projects. The earlier crowdfunding competitor is still in existence but each day loses ground to the now larger Kickstarter.

meanwhile, lending Club founder and CEO Renaud laplanche recognized that the value proposition in peer-to-peer lending was not about individu-als just lending a hand to other individuals. It was about provid-ing a platform for investors to find attractive risk-adjusted returns. lending Club brought borrowers and lender-investors together at a time when traditional banks were providing minuscule yields to de-positors and charging double-digit interest rates to borrowers.

3. Put the vision in the product: The clear vision has to be reflected in the product. This is where the rock star team and the clear vision converge.

In consumer products, compa-nies live and die based on how well they focus on the product. Take packaging. Effective packaging

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Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world’s largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Chris Giles at the Finan-cial Times flagged up the change. He also alerted us back in April this year that it was all about to happen.

Basically, the method used by the IMF adjusts for purchasing power parity, ex-plained here.

The simple logic is that prices aren’t the same in each country: A shirt will cost you less in Shanghai than San Francisco, so it’s not entirely

Ethio-Canada Business and Investment Summit 2014

business-to-business ties through success stories from business per-sons and industry experts, and brief Canadian investors on Ethiopia’s current and future economic trajec-tory, investment landscape and op-portunities.

Attending the meeting were Ethiopia’s Minister of Mines, To-lossa Shagie; Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Alemayehu-Tegenu; Speaker of the House of Federation, Kassa Tekle-Berhan; the Founder and Director of Cana-dian Council on Africa, Nola Ki-anza; Senator Don Meredith; Am-bassador of Canada to Ethiopia and Djibouti, and Permanent Represen-tative to the AU, Ambassador David Usher;and Ambassador of Ethiopia to Canada, Ambassador Birtukan Ayano, as well as business leaders and other stakeholders.

Ambassador TayeAtske-Selass-ie, Director-General of American Affairs in Ethiopia’s Foreign Min-istry, opened and chaired the Sum-mit, thanking the organizers and participants for making the meeting

a success for the continued growth of the bilateral ties of the two na-tions. Ambassador Birtukan Ayano welcomed the role of Ethiopia as a Country of Focus within the auspic-es of the Canada-Africa Business Summit.

She said “Ethiopia is poised to become a new frontier for FDI in Africa,” adding that this Summit would encourage and help Canadian investors to participate in Ethiopia’s rapid and sustainable economic growth and tap into the tremendous investment potential of the nation. She stressed Ethiopia had a lot to of-fer Canadian development partners including a vibrant and trainable labor force, easily accessible and cheap utility services and a decade of double digit economic growth.

Ambassador David Usher said that this Summit could be seen as a reflection of the need for a growing cooperative economic partnership. He also noted Ethiopia’s fast grow-ing economy underlined the need to renew the strategic partnership of the two countries. The current eco-

nomic growth in Ethiopia, he said, was already generating an increas-ing business interest from Canadian companies.

Zemedneh Nigatu, Manag-ing Partner of Ernst and Young, presented reasons of investing and doing business in Ethiopia with the theme “Investing in Emerging Ethiopia.” He detailed ten reasons including Ethiopia’s growing econ-omy and macro-economic stabil-ity, demographic advantages, rapid urbanization, its role as a manu-facturing hub of Africa, massive infrastructure development, and energy infrastructure development, untapped agricultural resources, tourism, and favorable operating business environment as well as its strategic position.

The Ethio-Canada Business and Investment Summit is also show-casing panel discussions, question and answer sessions, and delibera-tions on Ethiopia as a Country of Focus within the Canada-Africa Business Summit. (Source: MoFA)

A Alongside the first Canada-Africa 2014 Business Summit, the Ethio-Canada Business and Invest-ment Summit also opened on Sep-tember 15 in Toronto.

This four-day meeting is co-organized by Wafa Marketing and Promotion PLC, the Ethiopian Embassy in Canada and Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sec-toral Association in collaboration with the Canadian Embassy in Ethi-opia, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Mines, TFO Canada, and CCAfrica.

It is specifically showcasing the value of doing business in Ethiopia and aiming to bring together the two business communities to build more comprehensive and closer bilateral ties based on mutual ben-efit and common prosperity, deepen

China Just Overtook The US As The World’s Largest Economy

nese salary into dollars under-estimates how much purchas-ing power that individual, and therefore that country, might have. The Economist’s Big Mac Index is a great example of these disparities.

So the IMF measures both GDP in market exchange terms, and in terms of pur-chasing power. On the pur-chasing power basis, China is overtaking the US right about now and becoming the world›s biggest economy.

We›ve just gone past that cross-over on the chart below, according to the IMF. By the end of 2014, China will make up 16.48% of the world›s pur-chasing-power adjusted GDP (or $17.632 trillion), and the

US will make up just 16.28% (or $17.416 trillion):

IMF, Google Public Data Explorer Adjusted for pur-chasing power, the IMF thinks China›s economy is now the world›s largest.

It›s not all sore news for the US. It›ll be some time yet until the lines cross over in raw terms, not adjusted for purchasing power. By that measure, China still sits more than $6.5 trillion lower than the US and isn›t likely to over-take for quite some time:

IMF, Google Public Data Explorter But in terms of the raw market value of China›s currency, it still has a long way to go.

IMF, Google Public Data Ex-

plorer Adjusted for purchas-

ing power, the IMF thinks

China›s economy is now the

world›s largest.

reasonable to compare coun-tries without taking this into account. Though a typical per-son in China earns a lot less than the typical person in the US, simply converting a Chi-

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A Business Delegation from Swit-zerland, comprising representatives from different sectors, held business to business meetings with its Ethio-pian business counterparts at the Radission Blu hotel here in Addis.

Welcoming the delegation, Adisu Tekle, Communication and Inter-national Relations Manager of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations recalled the longstanding bilateral relations of Ethiopia and Switzerland. The Man-ager said that Ethiopia’s relation with Switzerland goes far back in history. He said that Swiss scholars were in-terested in Ethiopia since the time of Renaissance and in the 19th Century, missionaries and travelers started dis-covering and established relations on a people-to-people base. “The most prominent Swiss citizen was Alfred Ilg, an engineer who served Emperor Menelik II from 1889 to 1907 as advi-sor. He had a considerable influence on Ethiopia’s foreign policy and great-ly contributed to its modernization,” Adisu said.

Nowadays, he went on saying, Ethio–Switzerland relationships have been significantly changed to accom-

Switzerland Business Delegation Visits Ethiopia

modate diplomatic, economic, trade and investment partnerships. Thus, Ethiopia’s relations with Switzerland are now far more solid than ever be-fore.

Anne-Beatrice Bullinger, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ethiopia, on her part said that Switzerland investors are keen to invest in various sectors in Ethiopia. “The purpose of this high level business delegation is, among others, to explore the trade and in-vestment opportunities in Ethiopia,” she said. The Deputy Head of Mis-sion further said that the ongoing de-velopment in Ethiopia has attracted a number of foreign investors, and hence the Swiss are keen to be part of it.

Given the encouraging achieve-ments in terms of economic reforms in Ethiopia, and their enhanced bi-lateral relations, the economic link-ages between the two countries has been further improved. To this end, the trade and investment relations between Ethiopia and Switzerland have been strengthening significantly. For instance, the total trade turnover increased from about 73 million USD in 2004 to 155 million USD in 2013, showing a 125 per cent increase in

the trade relation between the two countries.

Ethiopia’s export to Switzerland also increased from around 54 mil-lion USD in 2004 to 174 million USD in 2012, showing a more than 200 per cent growth rate. Moreover, Ethio-pia’s import from Switzerland grew from around 18 million USD in 2004 to 49 million USD in 2013, showing a more than twofold growth.

In the same vein, Swiss investors

have received a license for 12 proj-ects between 1992 and 2012 with a capital of 171 million birr. In addition, Swiss investors have also invested in partnership with Ethiopian, France, Israel and Spain investors in 17 proj-ects with a capital of more than 330 million birr and have created 1,462 permanent and 1,727 temporary em-ployments.

Ethiopia has witnessed a sig-nificant improvement in its overall

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Some scholars and studies chal-lenge the proposition that human capital is fundamental to economic growth. Yet much evidence suggests that during what is arguably the most important era of growth—the Indus-trial Revolution—human capital had little bearing on economic develop-ment. Primary school enrolment in Britain, the cradle of industrialization, was a mere 11% as late as 1850. Scan-dinavia, in contrast, lagged behind ec-onomically for a long time in spite of having achieved close to full literacy at the beginning of the 19th century. Researchers from Katholieke Univer-sity, California University, Los Ange-les University, attempt to resolve this conundrum by dividing human capital

The importance of a skilled 1% into two categories, one that had an

impact on the Industrial Revolution and one that did not.

The authors reckon that “upper-tail knowledge” rather than “average human capital” is what drives indus-trialization. This matters presum-ably because while worker skills, such as literacy and primary education, boost productivity by utilizing exist-ing technologies, it is the skills held by top engineers and entrepreneurs that enables a society to innovate and foster the type of rapid technological progress that characterized the in-dustrial revolution. Since education and literacy are two of the most com-mon measures used in the academic literature this distinction would, if true, help explain why most previous studies have tried but failed to find a strong link between growth and hu-

man capital during the transition to the new manufacturing processes of the 18th and 19th centuries.

To test their theory, the research-ers used city-level subscription rates to “Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts” in France around 1750. “En-cyclopédie” was an attempt to collect scientific and cultural knowledge and was at the heart of the Enlightenment. In the analysis, subscription rates are therefore used as a measure of “upper-tail human capital” to contrast with literacy rates, which indicates “aver-age human capital”. In addition, the authors used a set of outcomes to capture economic development, in-cluding urbanization, soldier height, wage rates and industrial productiv-ity. As expected, wide-spread literacy did not predict growth. Subscriptions

to “Encyclopédie” per capita, on the other hand, were strongly associated with growth in each of the four mea-sures (consumption, investment gov-ernment expenditure and net export) after 1750.

The results do not imply that sub-scribing to “Encyclopaedia” caused economic growth or that reading it made people highly innovative. In-stead, the researchers argue that the subscription rate is a local indicator of the presence of highly educated elites who possess mathematical knowl-edge, scientific skills and entrepre-neurial ability. Needless to say “En-cyclopaedia” was not a blockbuster; it had some 8,000 subscribers in total and those were likely highly concen-trated in certain population segments. Their findings therefore support the hypothesis mentioned in the paper that “the Industrial Revolution was carried not by the skills of the average or modal worker, but by the ingenuity and technical ability of a minority.”

This is not to say that literacy rates and primary school enrolment are unimportant, but rather that they may not be sufficient to foster a transi-tion to a new economic system.

By Staff Writer

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Empowering Women, Empowering a Nation!

International Trade Law

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International trade law includes the appropriate rules and customs for handling trade between countries. However, it is also used in legal writings as trade between private sectors, which is not right. This branch of law is now an independent field of study as most governments have become part of the world trade, as members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Since the transaction between private sectors of different countries is an important part of the WTO activities, this latter branch of law is now a very important part of the academic works and is under study in many universities across the world.

International trade law should be distinguished from the broader field of international economic law. The latter could be said to encompass not only WTO law, but also law governing the international monetary system and cur-rency regulation, as well as the law of international development.

The body of rules for transnational trade in the 21st century derives from medieval commercial laws called the lex mercatoria and lex maritima — re-spectively, “the law for merchants on land” and “the law for merchants on sea.” Modern trade law (extending beyond bilateral treaties) began shortly after the Second World War, with the negotiation of a multilateral treaty to deal with trade in goods: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

International trade law is based on theories of economic liberalism devel-oped in Europe and later the United States from the 18th century onwards.

International Trade Law is an aggregate of legal rules of “international legislation” and new lex mercatoria, regulating relations in international trade. “International legislation” – international treaties and acts of interna-tional intergovernmental organizations regulating relations in international trade. lex mercatoria - “the law for merchants on land”. Alok Narayan defines “lex mercatoria” as “any law relating to businesses” which was criticized by Professor Julius Stone. and lex maritima - “the law for merchants on sea. Alok in his recent article criticized this definition to be “too narrow” and “merely-creative”. Professor Dodd and Professor Malcolm Shaw of Leeds University supported this proposition.

In 1995, the World Trade Organization, a formal international organiza-tion to regulate trade, was established. It is the most important development in the history of international trade law. The purposes and structure of the organization is governed by the Agreement Establishing The World Trade Organization, also known as the “Marrakesh Agreement”. It does not specify the actual rules that govern international trade in specific areas. These are found in separate treaties, annexed to the Marrakesh Agreement.

It is an established fact that sustainable development is not com-plete without gender equality. Since women account for half of any country’s talent base, empowering their participation in the work-force greatly enhances productivity and fosters economic growth. In fact, World Bank studies show that development strategies focusing on gender equality see stronger economic growth than gender-neu-tral strategies. Throughout the world, women represent a substantial, underutilized force for sustainable development. In Asia, for exam-ple, women are responsible for 50 per cent of agricultural output, while nearly 80 per cent of the agricultural labor in Africa market is female. Unfortunately, many of these women lack access to nec-essary agricultural resources, which, if freely accessible, could de-crease global hunger by 12-17 per cent.

Extreme poverty presents a large obstacle. Empowering women to take part in the workforce is not a simple problem to solve. For many women, there are physical and psychological consequences for entering the workplace – harassment, discrimination, violence and shame. Moreover, women across the globe still require invest-ment in basic health and education. A crucial part of the solution is getting resources for these working women to access, allowing them to thrive in their economic environments so that they may, in turn, foster the success of local communities. However, the solution must fit both the lifestyles of women and their cultures. For example, in indigenous societies women are custodians of traditional knowl-edge relating to resource management; providing access to modern technology presents a perfect opportunity for both empowering local women and encouraging sustainable development.

The strategy for economic empowerment is twofold: making the market work for women and (2) empowering women in the mar-ket. Supporting the economic empowerment of women is not just good company policy; it actually benefits the corporate world. Firms that employ women in leadership positions have better performance and higher profits. And, contrary to what might be believed, support-ing female employment actually has a positive impact on family life.

Gender equality is not just a lofty aspiration anymore; it is the necessary missing link for sustainable development. Women, on av-erage, reinvest up to 90 per cent of income into their households, ac-cording to some researches. Reducing gender inequality gives wom-en more money to spend on food, housing and education – crucial components for reducing poverty and promoting sustainable devel-opment. The corporate world increasingly realizes the importance of gender equality policies, with more firms looking for guidance on voluntarily reporting and improving their gender equality policies in the workplace, the supply chain and the community. The consensus is growing: getting more women into the workforce is the cure to many economic ills and imperative to sustainable development.

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ATurkish Business del-egation comprising representatives from different economic

sectors held business to business meetings with Ethiopian business community at the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associa-tions conference hall recently.

Welcoming the delegation, Secre-tary General of the Ethiopian Cham-ber of Commerce and Sectoral As-sociations Gashaw Debebe expressed his gratitude to the Turkish Business and Industrialists Federation (Tuskon) for bringing the Turkish delegation to Ethiopia to establish business rela-tions with its Ethiopian counterparts.

The Secretary General recalled that Ethiopiaand the Republic of

Turkish Business Delegation holds Business Meetings with Ethiopian Counterparts

Turkey have been enjoying one of the most cordial and close relationships and that the relation between the two countries and peoples has endured the tastes of time and goes far beyond or-dinary. “Nowadays, the relationship has been coupled with diplomatic, po-litical and economic ties,” he added.

The trade exchange between the two countries has been growing sig-

the total trade turnover increased from 110 million USD in 2004 to 559 mil-lion USD in 2013, showing a 400 per cent growth rate. Moreover, Ethio-pia’s export to Turkey increased from around 17 million USD in 2004 to 77 million USD in 2013, while Ethiopia’s import from Turkey increased from 94 million USD to 481 million USD same year, showing a 430 per cent growth rate.

The number of Turkish investors has also reached to over 150 from only one in 2004, making Turkey

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ing countries in Ethiopia. Turkish in-vestment projects have created thou-sands of job opportunities in Ethiopia. To mention just one, AIKA Addis, the biggest Turkish investment project, is an example of success when it comes to Turkish investment in Ethiopia. Gashaw said: “This speaks volumes by itself that investment environment in this country is conducive and at-tractive. Incentives that Ethiopia of-fers, market for products and services, the prevailing peace in the country, cheap and trainable workforce, and above all, the untapped resources that the country has, makes it investment destination for Turkish businesses and others.”

The Secretary General remarked that the role and contribution the busi-ness community could play in speed-ing up the development of the trade and investment relationship through such fora, economic cooperation, and investment projects is indispen-sible. As such, Gashaw recalled, the

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cheap and trainable workforce, and above all, the untapped resources that the country has, makes it investment destination for Turkish businesses and The WTO

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There are a number of ways of looking at the World Trade Organization. It is an organization for trade opening. It is a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements.


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