Ethiopia Business Forecast Report

Published: March 30 2009 Annual   

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The Ethiopia Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Ethiopia.

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Report Description

The Ethiopia Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Ethiopian market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Ethiopia and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Ethiopia's political, economic and financial prospects through end-2014, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Ethiopia's economic and industry growth through end-2014
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Ethiopia, to facilitate risk mitigation
  • Assess the critical shortcomings of Ethiopia's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise Ethiopia's country risks against regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in Ethiopia's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Ethiopia, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The Ethiopia Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International (BMI) includes three major sections: Ethiopia's Political Outlook, Ethiopia's Economic Outlook and Ethiopia's Business Environment.

Ethiopia's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Ethiopia over the next 5-years?

BMI's Ethiopia Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short- and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

Ethiopia Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the Ethiopian Market
    Political strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Ethiopia.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Ethiopia
    BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Ethiopia's risk are compared with regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making in Ethiopia
    BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Ethiopian government, assessing threats to the continuity of Ethiopian economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
  • Ethiopian Foreign Policy
    BMI examines key trends and shifts in Ethiopia's foreign relations and alignments with regional neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Ethiopia's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Ethiopia, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the Ethiopian government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Ethiopia's Economic Outlook:

How will Ethiopian economic policy-making and performance impact on corporate profitability over 2009-2014?

BMI provides our fully independent 5-year forecasts for Ethiopia through end-2014 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Ethiopian growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

Ethiopia Economic Outlook Contents

The Ethiopia Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for country, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 set against Ethiopian government views. Underpinning our Ethiopia forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2014, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Ethiopia

  • Economic Activity in Ethiopia
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in Ethiopia
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in Ethiopia
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in country; currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in Ethiopia
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current and capital account balances
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • Ethiopian External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Ethiopia and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic database on Ethiopia, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Ethiopian government economic policy

Ethiopia's Business Environment:

Ethiopia's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis

Short and long-term business environment risk ratings for Ethiopia, benchmarked against ratings for regional neighbours.

Country Competitiveness for Ethiopia
Competitiveness of Ethiopia's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 5-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.

Ethiopia Business Environment Contents

  • Ethiopia's Domestic Environment.
    Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia
    Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
  • Foreign Trade with Ethiopia
    Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas

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