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An Empirical Investigation On Innovative Practices Of Electromechanical Manufacturing: The Case Of Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) In Mekelle City, Ethiopia, Mengstu Ashebre, Gebremeskel Kahsay, Asayehgn Desta
An Empirical Investigation On Innovative Practices Of Electromechanical Manufacturing: The Case Of Small And Medium Enterprises (Smes) In Mekelle City, Ethiopia, Mengstu Ashebre, Gebremeskel Kahsay, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
A review of the literature reveals that manufacturing small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and support institutions in developing countries, like Ethiopia, are not able to identify the major determinants that affect innovation practices and their effects. The purpose of this study is therefore to identify innovation determinants of electromechanical SMEs and examine their marginal effects. The central question of the study is: what are the determinants of innovation capacity, if any, of electromechanical SMEs in product innovation capability? As developed by Alder and Shenbar (1990), the five dimensions of innovation capability include the capacity and ability to: a) develop …
The Viability Of Malaysian Developmental State For Africa In An Era Of Economic Globalization, Asayehgn Desta
The Viability Of Malaysian Developmental State For Africa In An Era Of Economic Globalization, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
Despite the implementation of several economic development blueprints in Africa for the last 60 years, the poverty rate of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) has increased from two hundred million in 1981 to almost three hundred eighty million in 2005. Entrepreneurial creativity and ingenuity were stifled and a number of African states became unstable when ruled by despotic rulers. To revitalize Africa’s development process in the 21st century, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has challenged the African states to refute the intolerable conditions required by the Neo-liberal policies of the Washington Consensus to borrow capital from the International Monetary Fund, …
Centrally-Planned Or Developmental-Oriented State: A Review Of The Ethiopian Economic System, Asayehgn Desta
Centrally-Planned Or Developmental-Oriented State: A Review Of The Ethiopian Economic System, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
After adhering to the required draconian conditions laid out by the multi-lateral financial institutions, more than ever the developing borrowing countries were faced with sharply declining living standards, recurring financial crises, rampant inflation and a resulting high rate of unemployment. Then, a number of African countries halfheartedly and with little or no accountability, or transparency, relinquished total responsibility to their governments to manage and direct their economies. While pursuing the command economic system imitated from socialist countries where by the central governments played a pivotal role in planning and programming, Africa faced by ineffective policies, misuse of abundant resources and …
The Effects Of Rent-Seeking In Dissipating Developmental Efforts: The Ethiopian Experience, Asayehgn Desta
The Effects Of Rent-Seeking In Dissipating Developmental Efforts: The Ethiopian Experience, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
The liberalization measures in Ethiopia for the last seven years have contributed to strong economic growth which has lifted the economic and social well-being of at least some of the more fortunate Ethiopians. The majority of Ethiopians, however, have remained at the margin of this process, failing to share the benefits of economic growth. To tackle the chronic poverty and rampant unemployment that the country is facing, policy makers have attempted more recently to retool the country"s economic structure to mirror the East Asian Developmental State economic model. To rekindle hope for Ethiopia"s economic future, Ethiopia"s Developmental State Model has …
Microcredit For Poverty Alleviation And Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Development: A Review Of African Case Studies, Asayehgn Desta
Microcredit For Poverty Alleviation And Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Development: A Review Of African Case Studies, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
With the hastening of the global poverty crisis and the absence of an adequate social safety net for those marginalized and vulnerable sections of society in the less developed countries, a number of researchers have moved beyond the relentless pursuit of short-term toward long-term anti- poverty, environmentally sustainable paradigms to assist chronically poor sectors of society. Though a remarkably polarizing issue, in the last three decades microcredit programs have been made available to the chronically poor as a viable option to involve them in the formal economic sector. It is assumed that the disadvantaged groups will become productive members of …
Chinese Investment In Ethiopia: Devlopmental Opportunity Or Deepening China's New Mercantilism?, Asayehgn Desta
Chinese Investment In Ethiopia: Devlopmental Opportunity Or Deepening China's New Mercantilism?, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
The political warfare theorists argue that the so-called \"cooperative\" investments undertaken by China in Africa are devastating and exploitative. In contrast, the position of the South-South Cooperative school of thought stresses that China's increased aid, trade, and investment in Africa is a means to foster Africa's self-sufficiency and sustainable development in the 21st century. Before romanticizing on illusion, the two schools of thought need to be tested empirically. The empirical part of this study attempts to advance the understanding and rationalization of the various Chinese investments in Ethiopia. More specifically, the central motive of this study was to investigate if …
China's South-South Cooperative Investments And Co-Development Modalities In Africa, Asayehgn Desta
China's South-South Cooperative Investments And Co-Development Modalities In Africa, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
Contrary to Western debt and assistance marked by various forms of economic and political overtones, China, using the South-South Cooperation, is in the process of bestowing a mix of loans with generous terms, debt forgiveness, infrastructure development, and other assistance to African nations so that they could be relieved from Western cultural, political, and economic hegemony. African governments have appreciated and responded enthusiastically to this new source of bottom-up, multiple, bilateral investment, trade, and aid because China has professed a willingness to ignore the political, conditional terms that characterize Western assistance. China's deepening involvement across Africa can be viewed from …
Economic Growth For Inflation: The Ethiopian Dilemma, Asayehgn Desta
Economic Growth For Inflation: The Ethiopian Dilemma, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
No abstract available
Africa's External Debt In Perspective, Asayehgn Desta
Africa's External Debt In Perspective, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
A review of the literature indicates that three hypotheses have been advanced as possible explanations of the LDC debt crisis: imprudent lending, the mismanagement of borrowed funds, and the international economic situation. To test these hypotheses and isolate the determinants of Africa's external debt, multiple regression analyses were performed on data drawn from World Bank sources and the Bank for International Settlement on forty-three African countries. The conclusion that can be drawn from the data analyses is that Africa's indebtedness is not due to imprudent lending policies. On the other hand, it is possible to argue that the borrowed funds …
International Counter-Trade: The Developing Countries International Business Strategy In The 1980’S, Asayehgn Desta
International Counter-Trade: The Developing Countries International Business Strategy In The 1980’S, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
No abstract provided.
A Socioeconomic Analysis Of Schooling In Ethiopia, Asayehgn Desta
A Socioeconomic Analysis Of Schooling In Ethiopia, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
Purpose is to trace historically how changes in the Ethiopian educational system correspond to changes in the socioeconomic structure. The first section of this paper surveys the themes of correspondence and contradiction. Section two discusses major changes in Ethiopian socioeconomic structure from 1900. Section three presents changes in the educational system which correspond to those changes in the socio-economic structure. Section four examines the major socioeconomic changes of the fascist occupation period (1935-1941) and includes a brief discussion of the fascist educational policy. Section five presents the major socioeconomic changes during the post-independence period (1941-1947), followed by a discussion of …
The Viability Of African Socialism As A Strategy For Development, Asayehgn Desta
The Viability Of African Socialism As A Strategy For Development, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
Many Africanists have shown serious concern about African socialism and have challenged African socialism, as a concept, from both theoretical and practical point of view. This study argues that most of the criticisms raised against African socialism are out of context and ahistorical. A careful analysis and the steps taken by socialist African states clearly signifies that African socialism is an identifiable body of thought and an appropriate course of action for African countries to follow in order to embark on socialist transformation.