The Ethiopian law of bankruptcy is said to be outdated and needs revi sion. This paper comparesrnthe Ethiopian bankruptcy law with modern laws of bankruptcy of four se lected countries andrninternational guidelines/principles for the same. The laws are the US and France bankruptcy lawsrnfrom the...
The importance of Environmental Impact Assessment (ErA) is clearly recognizedrnunder the FDRE constitution. The constitution also recognizes certain rightsrnconcerning the environment in the interest of the general public. In order tornfacilitate the practical implementation of the rights, the...
The banking sector is the dominant source of finance for businesses in Ethiopia. A keyrncharacteristic of the Ethiopian banking sector is that the stock of bank credit to the private sectorrn(including nonfinancial public enterprises) remains very low, when compared with the situationrnin other...
Copyright collecting societies were developed so as to rectifY the difjiculty faced by individualrncopyright holders to negotiate and give license to multiple and dispersed users and vice versa.rnThey serve as intermediary between users and copyright holders and create less costly supply...
In publicly held companies which are formed by contribution of capital from thousands ofrnsharehold ers, ownership usually separates from the control of disperse d shareholders and goesrninto the hands of few managers or few controlling shareholders. Total separation betweenrnownership and control...
Ethiopia has applied for membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) andrnits accession process is currently in progress. Despite this, the country is referringrnsome service sectors, like the telecom, as untouchable and, as a result, theirrnliberalization seems improbable. This dissertation...
The army had a significant role in Ethiopia's political past. But its status and role in therncountry's constitutions have not been clearly established. This paper is a result of thernstudy of the status and role of the armed forces in the Ethiopian Constitution. As such it isrnan attempt at...
The Elhiopian governmenl designed a conslillilion Ihal have a democralic and In/ilion righlsrnIhal gllaranleedjor Ihe cilizen ajier Ihefcdl of Derg regime. All peoples o.lElhiopia have arnpro/ect;on as national and regional in both international convention and Domes/ic lall'srnwilhinlhe cOllntry....
This research was conducted as an investigation into the complexities of thernattempts of the Government of Ethiopia to control banking business byrnapplying strict regulatory intervention and its impact on the participation ofrnforeigners in the banking business in the country.rnTo start with, the...
Recent reports evidence the existence of subsTantial nllmber of children with disabilitiesrnacross the globe. the majority of which live in the developing world. Such children have beenrnmarginalized section of the society in all places mainly in socia-economic areas. During thernpcm fO llr decades...
Dispute settlement provisions contained in International Investment Agreements have been a headache for manyrndeveloping countries. The main source of the problem emanates from interpretation of some core substantivernand procedural standards contained in such agreements by different arbi tral...
Looking in retrospection the modalities adopted under the FDRE Constitution in establishingrnlawmaking authority appears defective in two fundamental aspects. The feature of constrainedrnparliamentOlY systems, which primarily focuses on strong judicial independence to offset thernodds of separation...
This research has addressed the African regional human righlsrnsystem within th e ambit of the jurisdiction conferred upon thcrnCommission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Historically speaking,rnthe very fact lhat OAU / AU member countrics came to acceptrnuniform obligations lo observe provis ions en...
The ri ght to dcvelopment (RTD), which is a comprehens ive concept, embracing virtuallyrnall human right s, and const itutes in econom ic, social. cultural and politica l development.rnin wh ich all human rights and fundamental frcedoms can be fully realized, has beenrnrecognized as an inalienable...
The concept of environmental Protection and environmental ri g ht s are the recentrndevelopments in the world . It is after the 1972 Stockholm conference on humanrnenvironment that the world became aware of the necessi ty of env ir onmental protectionrnand the relationship between environment and...
It is self-evident that Persons with disabilities remain amongst the most marginalized in evelYrnsociety. Regardless of a countlY 's hlllllan rights or econolllic situation, they are generally the lastrnin line to have their hUlllan rights respected.rnWHO / World Bank World report on disability of...
Agriculture constitutes the backbone of the Ethiopian economy; not only it attracts 90% of thernCounu-y's export earnings but it also employs 85% of the Counu-y's labor force. In spite of itsrnpromising potential, the agricultural marketing system is underdeveloped and it is still in...
Agriculture constitutes the backbone of the Ethiopian economy; not only it attracts 90% of thernCounu-y's export earnings but it also employs 85% of the Counu-y's labor force. In spite of itsrnpromising potential, the agricultural marketing system is underdeveloped and it is still in...
Intellectual creations and innovations, collectively known as intellectual property (IP)rnhave been considered for long means to developmental goals of states. They have beenrninseparable in trade concerns of states too in the sense that they (IP), more often thanrnnot, are involved in trade...