Recently the World Bank funded an effort in Ethiopia to help increase investments in their infrastructure. In May of 2015, $370,000,000 was committed to fund The Ethiopia Expressway Development Support Project. Reuters noted the project as a risky one. About a quarters way through the project, the World Bank admitted that something went very wrong. Many people were driven from their homelands by force as a result of the project. The World Bank advocates "Working for a World Free of Poverty". Reuters, however, reports that in this project the World Bank admits that to being flawed in its efforts. Monitoring and accountability measures were not met to insure that the people in the path of the construction of the highways How did 70,000 people become dislocated? The answer not quite simple. The project 's efforts were intended to help eliminate the extreme poverty plaguing Ethiopia by developing roads, dams, and increasing investment but something else happened people were forced to move in a hurry and with meager compensation.
Worldbank.org boast of the remarkable progress made in Ethopia versus other Sub-Saharan African countries. Over the last 10 years there has been a average growth or almost 11% of their Gross Domestic Product. Agriculture and and Infrastructure were noted to be the driving force. The government of Ethiopia borrowed monies at the leadership of Tesfamichael Nahusenay Mitiku so that the Ethiopian Roads Authority could develop the Rural and Inter-Urban roads and highways. This project was expected to last about six years. The World Bank noted it progress on this project on their website as Satisfactory but on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 World Bank President Jim Yong Kim admitted shortcomings and...
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...o would create when building a highway. It was very irresponsible not to do so.
I believe that it 's is possible to ensure that human lives are considered in projects such as these. It contradictory that they were not given an alternate living plan that they agreed upon within reason that provided similar or better conditions that they were giving up their livelihood for. It is a sacrifice to leave one 's home and sacrifices should be compensated. If the World Bank was not able to fully fund this project with consideration to the people that it effects then the project should have been put on hold until proper funding and accommodations were met. I believe that the World Bank Organizations should have been able to make an unbiased decision on this project but I dare this that a lending organization can because of their financial interest in the project.
The eight Millennium Development Goals proposed by the UN during the Millennium General Assembly of 2000 will not be reached in Africa by 2015 if international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund continue to impose unethical and punishing economic policies through the Structural Adjustment Program (SAPs) on the poor and undeveloped countries of Africa and if the wealthy old core countries continue to break promises and hesitate to donate enough financial aid to Africa to help it recover from the destructive effects of the SAPs and the AIDS pandemic, and to also ensure gender equality and rights of women in Africa.
There have been many famines that have greatly impacted Ethiopia. One of the famine that is very famous in Ethiopian history and World history is known as the Great Famine. Due to the lack of the support of the government and other organizations, about one million people died of starvation. The conditions of Ethiopia in the beginning of 1984 were not well. “The Ethiopian government predicted that the agricultural yield of the nation was going to be considerably lower in at the beginning of 1984 because there had been less rainfall than expected. However, preventive measures were not taken by either the government or the rest of the world to prevent the mass starva...
All of these people were packed into a tiny space with no food or water. No person, not even a bad person such as a murder, deserves to be in such inhuman...
The history of humanitarian aid has been muddied by cases of NGOs and UN groups enabling violent groups by providing too much support and aid. During the Rwandan Genocide, two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, clashed and thousands of Tutsis were killed at the hands of the Hutus. Many people fled the country seeking refuge, and agencies set up refugee camps in some of the neighboring countries, beginning one of the largest humanitarian aid disasters that the world has ever seen (Lassiter 54). Many ex-combatants found their ways into these cams, receiving food and aid supplies. Some of these camps were even used as military bases where the ex-combatants could rally and then leave to kill their enemies. Thinking that they could curb reliance on aid workers and agencies, the aid was put under the control of the Rwandan soldiers. Because of the prejudice of the soldiers, only people of certain races and ethnicities received aid. The availability of aid to the military and militants enabled them to accomplish military objectives without fear of retribution. While the aid problems in the aftermat...
While the United States has a long-standing foothold on the oil in Africa, China has been dominating the other natural resources available for the past 20 years (Bhorat 2013). Additionally, the current perception of President Obama in Kenya seems to have changed dramatically over the recent years. While much of the letdowns were due to high expectations on the Kenya’s population, the general consensus was that President Obama has not done much to help improve the current state of the Kenyan economy. The current programs in Africa are programs that were enacted or established by President's Clinton and George W. Bush (Mwangi 2013). This has allowed the Chinese government to move in and expand operations in the region.
There are a few NGO’s that are trying to help out and some at a local level; they are providing, schooling, foster care, medical care, public distribution system supplementation, shelter and oher assistance to the displaced (Argo, 2006).
This illustrates the problem with the refugee program in the U.S. While refugees may be given an opportunity to do something, instead of just waiting to die in a refugee camp, it does not mean that the program is good or very respectful of human rights.
Amnesty International. 2014. Because I am Oromo: Sweeping Repression in the Oromiya Region of Ethiopia: Peter Benenson House 1 Easton Street, London, UK
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html> "Ethiopia." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopdia Britannica Inc., 2013. Web.
Pitts and Koufopoulos (2012) argue that resources and capability are highly important internal factors that should be taken into account by the organization in order to obtain the successful performance in the long run.
Ethiopia’s government controlled everything, whether it was jailing journalists, exiling critics, or abusing human rights. “Zenawi’s critics were jailed, killed or chased out of the country: in fact, more journalists were exiled from Ethiopia in the last decade than any other country on earth. Let’s restate that: Zenawi kicked out more journalists than any other tyrant on the planet, thereby monopolizing control over information” (Halvorssen, pars. 6). Ethiopia only seemed like a peaceful, progressional place because people out of the country were shielded from the truth. “Keeping Ethiopia together” had it costs that dictator, Meles Zenawi was fine with taking. It was very ignorant for Bil...
In this world there are many different types of challenges faced but individuals in different countries, as people work together to find a way to stop or solve these challenges there are also some challenges or situations that individuals, even as a group, cannot eliminate. The race to reach conclusions of situations is very desirable and is being worked on very efficiently, but one issue that people have mistaken into accomplishing is hunger. Hungry is present everywhere and not a lot of people can satisfy or fulfil that need. Lack of sanitation, unemployment, and unhealthy diet choices these are involved in an imaginary line called the poverty line. The idea of food banks is a good start into eliminating hungry but the process still has a
Introduction Pramuka Savings and Development Bank (PSDB) was incorporated in 1997 as the first private savings bank in Sri Lanka. Mr. Rohan Perera was the founder of Pramuka Bank and was the founder and chief executive officer of Seylan Bank previously. After resigning from Seylan Bank, Mr. Perera applied for license to incorporate a commercial bank from Central Bank Sri Lanka. But Central Bank only gave license to operate a Savings and Development Bank. But that was also a debatable topic.
Did you ever visit Ethiopia and observed peoples’ life there? Life in Ethiopia is completely different from life in the USA. There are many difficulties in Ethiopia and some of them are poverty, education and health. Even though there are some problems in America, they are not like the problems in Ethiopia.