Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s economy is booming. Political opposition is not. We research governance in a broad sense, from democracy to elections and employment policies.
Current projects
Jobs Network
Job Creation
PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes
Completed projects
Creating a political and social climate for climate change
Evaluation of Norwegian engagement in South Sudan
Women in the developmental state: female employment and empowerment
Life Skills in Non-Formal Contexts for Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries
Elections and Democracy in Africa
Priority setting in global health
Evaluation of Norwegian Support to Protection of Cultural Heritage
Improving the Integrated Rural Development Projects in Western Ethiopia
Poverty monitoring and macroeconomic advice in Ethiopia
Research co-operation on emerging social issues in Ethiopia
Review of the Norwegian Development Fund Portfolio in Ethiopia
Poverty monitoring Ethiopia - ICR ESRDF
Aid to judicial reform
Norwegian NGOs and aid
Enweyway
Ethiopia since the Derg: A decade of democratic pretension and performance
Norwegian support to building of research capacity at national level
The Borana land-use project
Leonardo Arriola
Economic growth in an authoritarian regime
Since 2004, Ethiopia has been among the fastest growing non-oil producing economies in Africa. The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has ambitious plans for transforming the Ethiopian economy and is aiming to make Ethiopia a middle income country within the next 20 years.
The Ethiopian government follows the ‘developmental state model’, derived from the experiences of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, driven by a determined elite with a national development vision. CMIs research on Ethiopia centres around governance. We research the intersections between empowerment, economic growth, and political participation within the Ethiopian context. In particular we research women's opportunities in the developmental state and employment creation for the poor.