ASSESSING ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF ETHIOPIA’S DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTALISM
ASSESSING ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF ETHIOPIA’S DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTALISM

Summary/Abstract: This paper assesses the issues, challenges & prospects of Ethiopia‘s democratic developmentalism which has been executed since the early 2000s. Despite some argue that the ideology is a threat to democracy and its implementation results in degradation of the constitutional autonomy of regional states, in the last 15 years the country has becomes one of fastest growing economies in the world; increase citizens‘ per capita income; ranked the second country in Sub-Sahara in attracting FDIs next to South Africa & experienced remarkable expansion of social infrastructures like hydropower, telecom, inter-state-and-cross boarder roads, industrial parks, educational and health centers etc. Despite these, the ideology has been implemented with a number of challenges like: incompetent, politically partial, less-efficient, non-merit based bureaucracy, corruption, shortage of hard currency, weak media, and political instability. Above all, the internal power strife among sister parties of the ruling front, EPRDF, which results in dissolution of the front in recent months put the future of the ideology at crossroad.

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