Import-dependent enterprises in Ethiopia are facing mounting working-capital pressures and price uncertainty following sweeping macroeconomic and foreign-exchange reforms aimed at transitioning the country toward a more market-driven economy.
Can public-enterprise reform be improved by pausing the very mechanism through which employers and workers negotiate wages, incentives and conditions of work? ... A legitimate reform objective ... Performance reform needs bargaining ... The real test of reform.
When I was going to law school in the late 1970s, weighing the paths before me in pursuit of a legal profession, I decided against accepting criminal defense work ....