Ethiopia's Poorest Economy In Africa

While eating dinner at 8pm my parents would always switch the TV to EBC, the state run news channel, and every single time the same headlines would greet us: Ethiopia the fastest economy in Africa, Ethiopia’s economic boom, Ethiopia a role model in the region. These headlines raised a fundamental question in me: if Ethiopia’s economy was increasing at such a rate why did it land annually on the list of poorest nations in the world? Why did a third of its citizens live below the national poverty line? Throughout high school I was drawn into questions such as these and it led me to the field of Economics - a subject that explained to me how nations rose, how economies fell and how societies were governed by its laws.
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