Transcending Partisanship
Think Piece on
Macro-Strategy
& Meta-Policy Trajectories for Ethiopia’s Sustainable Revitalisation
Think Piece - Annotated
Summary RL Vol. XII No. CCCXCIV, MMXVIII
Costantinos Berhutesfa
Costantinos, PhD
Professor of Public
Policy & Sustainable Institutional Reforms
Abstract
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Despite the upsurge of ethnic politics in the past generation,
it is
abundantly clear that the bonds of Etyopiyawinet are alive and well
(Donald Levine, 2005)
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The Growth and Transformation
Plan (GTP) emphasises macroeconomic stability as the primary policy objective,
based on a case scenario of an average annual growth rate of 10% but the state still has snags in demarcating its
governing and mercantile roles, resulting in significantly tinsel fiscal
behaviour, added to the chronic economic disorderliness, tainted by graft and
influence peddling. Hence, political reforms are essential for the
implementation and sustainability of the change. Prime Minister Abiy inherits a spectacular economic and
infrastructure growth, hundreds of thousands graduating yearly from vocational
schools and universities, an increase in life expectancy of ten years in a
decade and meeting the MDGs, but, as citizens become more educated, they
demand a greater political voice, and that such demands must be met. Hence,
the paper outlines a 24-month task for the Ethiopian leadership to achieve livelihood
stability and bring in peace and security. The agenda for 2018-2020 encompasses public
policy and public administration and economic and
social governance.
The action plan zero’s
on the state’s essential task: participatory
policy & strategy development; governance and administration refinement;
kitchen cabinet think tank to support the Executive and liberalisation of SoEs
with IPOs sold domestically and internationally. The private sector’s essential
task hinges on technology transfer and
development, investment promotion, employment generation and management and
marketing research. Investment and
the full or partial liberalisation of the huge parastatals through IPOs and reform
of party endowments will advance structural transformation. The civil
society agenda stems from a need for a politically
assertive civil society in a democratic dispensation. The Academia’s
essential task hones on think tanks that continually
remodel, expand, advance, renovate, cultivate and develop mighty economies even
when their models are doing well. It
is focused on policy & strategy research and nation branding. Sen’s claim
that no famine has occurred in history in
a functioning democracy is not only a “Western” desire to impose good
governance, it is a basic human right. Let this stand as a testimony to an open
invitation of a renewed commitment to contribute to stemming the tide of
famine, displacement and human distress but it suggests itself seems within
reach only to elude and appears readily practicable only to resist realisation.
Key words: GTP, peace, employment, investment,
liberalisation, civil society, private sector, kitchen cabinet
Restricted / embargoed June 5,
2018
See paper here or https://www.academia.edu/36789934/Transcending_Partisanship_Think_Piece_on_Macro-Strategy_and_Meta-Policy_Trajectories_for_Ethiopia_s_Sustainable_Revitalisation_RL_Vol._XII_No._CCCXCIV_MMXVIII
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