The Anatomy of PM’s Economic Advisory Council epitomizes both the PM’s disregard for intellectual input and the Economic Council’s lack of courage to live up to its expectation as an independent body. The executive summary of the Council’s bylaws took note:Ethiopia’s Independent Council of Economic Advisors (henceforth the Council) was established by executive action in November 2020. It is a body of experts constituted to give independent economic advice to the Prime Minister and the Government of Ethiopia. • It was supposed to produce Ethiopian Economic Outlook Report annually, there is not even a trace of it. It is incomprehensible why the supposedly independent Council is waiting for government permission to release its study.

Source: Ethiopian News December 10, 2022 23:08 UTC