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After Meles: Implications for Ethiopia’s Development

Published on 7 November 2012

The death of Meles Zenawi in August 2012 has raised a number of questions about Ethiopia’s political stability and development trajectory. Meles built up a complex web of relationships that conjoined domestic political forces with foreign investors, leading the country towards impressive rates of growth and substantial achievement of some development indicators.

Under his rule Ethiopia’s national image began a slow transformation from famine-plagued nation to a fast-growing country which was at the heart of a new global realpolitik in Africa. The challenge now is whether Ethiopia’s institutions, dominated at all levels by a single party, can transition to greater pluralism and, if so, will this enable the country to approach middle-income status by 2025 – a much-vaunted goal of the late Prime Minister.

Authors

Jeremy Lind

Professorial Fellow

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published by
IDS
authors
Handino, M., Lind, J. and Mesfin, B.
journal
IDS Rapid Response Briefing, issue 1

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Rapid Response
Region
Ethiopia

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