Senior Resident Representative Office in Ethiopia

Arnim Schwidrowski
IMF Office Addis Ababa
4th floor
Heritage Plaza building
Cameroon Road
(about 1 km away from the Bole International airport to the north-east, opposite to the Tanzanian Embassy)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel: (+251) 116 627 800
Fax: (+251) 116 627 803

Welcome to the website of the IMF Resident Representative Office in Ethiopia. This website provides information about the activities of the Resident Representative Office in Ethiopia and the relations between Ethiopia and the IMF. We would be happy to answer any question you might have. Please do not hesitate to contact us at mnetsere@imf.org


Press Statements

Trade Liberalisation, Confusing Means with End? Commentary in response to Mr. Abdoulaye Bio Tchane commentary, published in Addis Fortune, May 13, 2007.

What Drives Trade in Africa, Why It Matters? By Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, Director of the African Department, published in Addis Fortune, May 6, 2007.

Statement by IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato at the Conclusion of a Visit to Ethiopia, March 9, 2007


Publications

The following are publications by the Fund in the recent past on regional matters and on Ethiopia:

Engaging with Fragile States: Challenges and Opportunities, Addis Ababa, July 24-25, 2007, Conference organized by the World Bank's Internal Evaluation Group, NORA, and UNECA

Ethiopia:
Money Isn't Everything: The Challenge of Scaling Up Aid to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Ethiopia, by Todd Mattina

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Regional Integration and Regional Economic Outlooks

Latest IMF material on Ethiopia:

April 12, 2008 -- IMFC Statement by the Honourable Tito Mboweni, Governor, South African Reserve Bank
On behalf of: Burundi, Botswana, The State of Eritrea, The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Republic of Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kingdom of Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia. PDF File Size: 188Kb
March 21, 2008 -- Evaluation of the U.K. DFID-Financed Technical Assistance GDDS Project for Selected Anglophone African Countries (2001-06)
Subject: Andorra | Botswana | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Ghana | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Malawi | Namibia | Nigeria | Sierra Leone | Sudan | Swaziland | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Technical assistance programs | General Data Dissemination System
October 20, 2007 -- IMFC Statement by Shamsuddeen Usman, Minister of Finance, Nigeria
On behalf of: Angola, Burundi, Botswana, The State of Eritrea, The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Republic of Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kingdom of Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia. PDF File Size: 186Kb
July 20, 2007 -- The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: 2007 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Series: Country Report No. 07/247
July 19, 2007 -- The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Statistical Appendix
Series: Country Report No. 07/245