## Contextualizing Ethiopia’s Recent Economic Performance

_IMF News, July 18, 2019_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 18, 2019

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### Event and speaker
- Keynote Address by Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, Africa Department, IMF at the 17th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy Ethiopian Economics Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Date: July 18, 2019
- Media relations: PRESS OFFICER: Meera Louis
  - Phone: +1 202 623-7100
  - Email: MEDIA@IMF.org
- IMF Communications Department
- @IMFSpokesperson

### Introduction and caveats
- The speaker states two caveats:
  - These are his views and not those of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) nor its Executive Board.
  - It has been some 25 years since he last lived in Ethiopia.
- Opening greeting: "Good morning."
- The speaker acknowledges the audience as "this august assembly of our country’s celebrated economists" and asks for indulgence for "the hubris that this entails" before proceeding.

### Broad consensus on Ethiopia’s recent performance ("Known knowns")
- Two points on which there is broad agreement:
  - "Over the last 25 years, Ethiopia has made incredibly important development progress, underpinned by rapid economic growth."
  - "Of late however significant macroeconomic imbalances have emerged."

### Purpose of the address
- The speaker’s aim is threefold:
  - "To put this progress into an international perspective. This comparative perspective is in many ways what the IMF is good at."
  - "Second, to consider the factors that have contributed to this success;"
  - "Finally, I will turn my thoughts on how the challenges that have emerged might be addressed."

### Additional note
- The page includes the prompt: "Read more."

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## References

- [Abebe Aemro Selassie](https://www.imf.org/en/About/senior-officials/Bios/abebe-selassie)
- [The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the IMF](http://www.imf.org/external/country/ETH/index.htm)
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