World Bank And Ethiopia Case Study

Ethiopia is a country found in the mid-east of Africa. It is surrounded by several countries including Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Eritrea. High amounts of rainfall in Ethiopia has resulted in the death and homelessness of thousands of people. Around 100 people have lost their lives in the past month in Ethiopia due to flash floods and landslides caused by their high rainfall, at least 20,000 have become homeless because of the same reason and even more have lost valuable cattle and crops. Ethiopia has a population of over 75 million and it has been rapidly increasing in the last 2 decades resulting in the construction of more and more buildings causing land for farming and cattle to be used up. The majority of

Ethiopia is a country that creates image of starving. In 1980, many countries of east Africa had drought, and political unrest so people displaced from their shelter to camping, In addition when people moves to other place from their village or town, due to civil war, it is hard to produce crops or grain for food. Therefore those all causes refuges who lives in camps specifically in Ethiopia in 1980. During that time Ethiopia asked aid for the United Nations so the united nation were showing to the world about Ethiopian famine so that it could get assistance from the world. European countries and America assisted to Ethiopia to receive food, medicine, and other material. While Ethiopian economic is growing fast in the world by 10.3 per year

In the case of the proposal to fund Brazil with dams, irrigation, power, roads, and funds to develop crops the World Bank has those funds. As a representative of the World Bank, this proposal is currently not very wise and the impact it will have on the people of Brazil will not be a positive one, and that it will not yield a great return to the World Bank unless some adjustments to the proposal are made.

During the 1990’s, Somalia had a famine crisis, which many Westerners labeled as a ‘humanitarian crisis.’ As always, the hegemon, which was the United States, stepped up to the plate and helped in providing food for the starving Somalis. Seeing starving children drew Westerners to sympathize with these individuals and they blamed the inept Somali government for not doing enough to help its citizens. The intervention was meant to deliver food to the Somalia, but later that turned to ‘mission creep’, “the temptation commanders feel to chase success and perhaps glory around the next corner by expanding their mandate and rolling over anyone in their way” (Hoagland, 1: 1993). What was a humanitarian crisis has now turned into a nation-building

I went to a country where the first coffee plant was ever found located on the horn of Africa. I do not remember much about the trip, but I still remember enough to make this essay. Ethiopia is the birthplace of my sweet mom and the place I first saw my grandparents. The main reason I went was to see my extraordinary family that was in Ethiopia. During the trip I had a great time, especially when I went to the beach for the first time (with my family).

Some people speak against U.S foreign aid being sent to Africa for humanitarian reasons. Others speak out in favor of such actions. All of us have seen the news tickers with vital headlines about “people being devastated by droughts in Zimbabwe and unhygienic water in Sudan”, but what is their government doing about it. Personally, I’ve asked myself several founded inquiries about where is this foreign aid going to and what are some of the achievements being made. I’ve acquired over time well-built knowledge in relation to the United Nations and the work they perform globally to promote stability and development. I will be bringing in several valid arguments to get to the bottom of this controversial subject of

Every year sub-Saharan Africa receives around $134bn in loans, foreign investment and development aid, according to the UN. Nonetheless, sub-Saharan Africa is still the poorest region in the world. For many years the international community has debated over the reasons why every year billion and billions of dollars are not taking sub-Saharan Africans out of poverty. Three major groups have prevailed in the discussion. First, the people who totally blame Africa for not doing its job right, completely forgetting that most of the funds are not administrated by Africans. Second, the people who believe that even though aids are not working, the international community should keep investing funds in Africa even if is failing; one day they will work.

All this background material will allow me to focus on my specific purpose: The attempt to comprehend the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically in Ethiopia, and finally, what could be the solution to that state of affairs.

The World Bank, created in 1944, was made to provide assistance to poverty-stricken or financially unstable countries around the world. Although it originated as an amazing idea, today the World Bank sometimes causes more harm than benefit in the countries that it intends to assist ("International Monetary Fund and World Bank," n.d.). One example of this is the Chixoy Power Project the World Bank funded in Guatemala. In 1978, the project was started " with the intent of “bringing development” to Guatemala" (Russell, 2015). However, this project leads to one of the most horrific genocides in Guatemalan history.

Africa is known to be one of the most heavily povertized region on the globe, and whether or not it was the fault of Europeans or themselves is beside the actual problem. Ethiopia displays one of the problems Africa is dealing with, as one of the overlying problem is rural poverty, and any other issues that follow poverty. Entire households survive on scraps of food every day, and work hard to try to gain more money for food. The poverty has encouraged farmers to have more children in an attempt to increase their workers and profits. This increase in population in rural Ethiopia has been causing migration from the area. Studies have been made about society in Ethiopia and how the economy affects it to try to understand the issue of poverty.

E. What does the World Bank do to prevent or help displaced people that result from a World Bank

Ethiopia has a population of 84.7 million people, which was estimated in 2011. In 1896, Ethiopia was discovered by Emperor Menelik II, who was the emperor of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is in east Africa; it is west of Somalia and neighbor to Eretria. The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa, which means "New Flower" in English. Ethiopia has its own calendar that is seven years and eight months behind the rest of the world; it has 13 months in a year. The climate in Ethiopia consists of 13 months of sunshine, which mean they experience sunshine and warm weather thought the year. However, Ethiopians experience rainy season between mid-March and September. Ethiopia is a diverse city that consists of immigrants that came from many countries, who have lots of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Languages in

Eritrea and Ethiopia, Palestinians and Israel, the Rohingya and Myanmar. The ethical question of the 21st century seems to be what to do about different ethnic groups sharing the same territory. One ethical challenges for the world concerns the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people, both vying for statehood in the same land, using military force and terrorism to confront each other. Or, Eritrea having declared its independence from Ethiopia, after having first been colonized by the Italians and then deeded to Ethiopia by the Allies after World War II, is now engaged in a bloody border dispute with Ethiopia, competing for access to the Red Sea. Or, the government of Myanmar is denying citizenship and human rights to the Rohingya,

The film Black Gold is a good, albeit biased, take on the state of the coffee industry in the African nation of Ethiopia. Taken almost purely from the view of the farmers, it sheds light on the conditions they live in and opens the eyes to prime examples of dependency theory and conflict theory. Although panned by many critics for its lack of economic breakdown on a more global scale, the film shows the viewer how these issues really feel to those at the bottom of the ladder. Black Gold was released in 2006 by brothers and filmmakers, Nick and Marc Francis. Its focus is on the coffee trade worldwide using the smaller focal point of the country of Ethiopia and even more specifically, the Oromia Coffee Union (a cooperative of some 74,000 farmers,

This money was marked to be used to provide basic services to rural communities, items like health care and education. This program was apparently a success because the World Bank extended the program in 2009 and approved an additional $540