Ethiopia: Why Has Ethiopia Waited for So Long to Join the World Trade Organization?

[Ethiopian Herald] It was some twenty years ago that the issue of whether Ethiopia should join the World Trade Organization or not was raised and discussed by the concerned authorities both in the private and public sectors. The issue had attracted much attention and heated debate because Ethiopia had just shifted from a state-controlled to a private sector-led economic development strategy. Public enterprises were being privatized and there was no solid experience to rely on in privatization as well as in running state-owne