The IMF Director’s Ethiopia visit calls to mind the classic novel – Alice in Wonderland! Now that we have attempted to answer the question of who might be behind Lagarde’s Ethiopia visit, let’s turn to the more important question: why now? I have explained at length the problems with Ethiopia’s economic data in a piece entitled: Ethiopia’s economic growth borrows from ENRON’s accounting. For example, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which records global vital population statistics, projects Ethiopia’s population at 105 million. Population growth rate comes from two sources – net in-migration (in migration minus out-migration) plus natural population growth rate (births minus deaths).

Source: Ethiopian News December 28, 2017 14:26 UTC