Introduced over the past few years, the nine operational industrial parks in Ethiopia have created a total of 64,000 jobs. The jobs are created by companies, which are operating in the five government built industrial parks and four private industrial parks, according to the information New Business Ethiopia received from Ethiopian Investment Commission. The five industrial parks built by the government are Hawassa, Kombolcha, Bole Lemi, Mekele and Adama industrial parks. Collectively the fivae state owned industrial parks have currently created jobs to 45,000 Ethiopians. The country launched construction of state owned industrial parks a few years ago after securing loan from Eurobond.

Source: News Business Ethiopia February 05, 2019 12:23 UTC