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Procedural Headwind to Ethiopia’s Growth

Note: This article was published on addisfortune, 2016 edition.  Although a signifacant progress has been made since the first write up, we do think some of the key suggestions are still relevant to todays market envirnment. Hence the need to republish it here. Procedural inefficiency is a major roadblock to Ethiopia's growth vision, argues Tigabu Atalo, a power, energy and infrastructure consultant, in this commentary first published at Linkedin Pulse. Taking the time to redress the shortcomings is vital, he suggests . There is a very good reason to identify blocks to progress on the individual and enterprise levels, let alone on the scale of a nation’s economy, as it gives the chance to put them aside in time. Ethiopia’s determination to achieve its first Growth & Transformation Plan (GTP I) was remarkable. It put most of the targets in the pipeline, but with significant slippage in terms of time – and I do believe procedural efficiency problem is to take the blame more than