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Ethiopia : breaking new ground / Ben Parker with Abraham Woldegiorgis.
LIBRA HC845 .P37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Ben.
- Series:
- Oxfam country profile
- An Oxfam country profile
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethiopia--History--1974-1995.
- Ethiopia.
- History.
- Ethiopia--Social conditions--1974-.
- Social conditions.
- Ethiopia--Politics and government--1991-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxfam, 2003.
- Summary:
- This book celebrates the rich cultures of an ancient society, and describes its people's efforts to revive their land. Times are hard: the years of war, drought, and political oppression in the 1980s left soils exhausted, schools and hospitals derelict, and communities fragmented. But the first edition of this book (Ethiopia: Breaking New Ground), published in 1995 described a diverse and resilient nation in the process of rebuilding itself. Since then, however, Ethiopia has suffered severe strains, both internally and externally. A disastrous war with Eritrea has set back the nation's recovery by many years, and the AIDS epidemic compounds the threat to Ethiopia's economic survival. This new edition reproduces the original text and illustrations in full, but it also features a supplement with updated information about the war and its social and economic consequences, together with reports on the food-security situation, the redistribution of land, relations with the World Bank and IMF, and national strategies to combat the threat of AIDS.
- Contents:
- Beginnings 3
- A bird's eye view 4
- A land of plenty 6
- Menelik the Moderniser 10
- Haile Selassie, King of Kings 11
- The Derg years 13
- The nationalities question 16
- Building the Second Republic 21
- A life of exile 25
- Living off the land 28
- The environment 32
- Farming and herding 35
- Can Ethiopia feed itself? 39
- The world's second-poorest economy 42
- Education: a way out of poverty? 45
- Women's lives: the 15-hour day 47
- 'May God grant you health' 49
- Surviving in the city 51
- A land of righteousness 53
- The re-invention of Ethiopia 58
- Dates and events 60
- Up-date: events in Ethiopia since 1995 61
- Oxfam in Ethiopia 72.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 71).
- ISBN:
- 0855984848
- OCLC:
- 51439318
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