July 2024 Macroeconomic Policy Archives

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Math Meets PP Myth No. 5: When 12 Billion Birr GERD Contributions Become Insults
By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-232026-01-23
In this fifth installment of Math Meets PP Myth, the dismissal of 12 billion birr as “insignificant” reveals more than numerical abuse. It exposes a psychology of power that cannot tolerate shared ownership. Leaders secure in legitimacy thank contributors; insecure ones belittle them. Reducing citizens to percentages is not economic analysis—it is political conditioning, preparing the public to accept exclusion, silence, and hierarchy under the guise of math.
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Math Meets PP Myth: The 0.2% “Appreciation” as Statistical Noise and Political Messaging
By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-012026-01-02
A 0.2% “appreciation” is not news from the NBE Governor; it is noise. In FX markets, such a shift is statistically meaningless—well within volatility and margin of error. Presenting it as progress is not optimism but contempt: a technocratic sleight of hand that assumes the public cannot tell arithmetic theater from economic reality. This is fifth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series.
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When Credit Capping Hits 24% — and Logic Hits Zero
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-14
Correction: The 24% Figure Explained — and Why the Problem Remains the Same.
The much-circulated 24% was not Ethiopia’s lending rate but the annual cap on credit expansion — the ceiling on how much new money banks can lend each year. Yet this technical correction changes little: whether through suffocating interest rates or restrictive credit policy, Ethiopia’s banking system remains trapped in a cycle that starves growth while serving debt.
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Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Prosperity at 18-20% or More Interest Rate
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-122025-10-12
This fourth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series examines Ethiopia’s record-shattering bank interest rate — a feat only the Prosperity Party regime could frame as progress. In the land of sanity, interest rates hover around 1–2%, allowing businesses to borrow, grow, and reinvest. Ethiopia now faces 24% interest rate. For small and medium enterprises operating on 5–10% margins, this is not financing but strangulation. When credit costs more than profit, business shifts from value creation to sheer survival — and the economy itself begins to suffocate.
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Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Inflation That Eats Wages Alive in Ethiopia
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-09-012025-09-01
This is the third episode in our "Math Meets PP Regime Myth" series, following [1] and [2]. The PP regime claims Ethiopia’s inflation will ease to around 10%, but ground realities tell a different story. Food staples, rent, utilities, and transport have soared by 100% or more, with wages frozen for decades. For ordinary households, real inflation isn’t 10% — it’s in triple digits, perhaps over 500%. Official figures don’t comfort the poor; they insult them with Orwellian doublespeak.
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