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Ethiopia is registering promising results by implementing Kaizen in 40 medium and high scale industries and businesses over the past eight months.

Professionals and experts drawn from several African countries are in Ethiopia to share best practices.

Speaking on the occasion, Ethiopian Industry Minister, Mekonnen Manyazewal said the Kaizen leadership philosophy is facilitating the nation’s endeavor to transform itself to an industry-led economy.

According to ERTA, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on the occasion vowed to strengthen technical support in the efforts to apply the Kaizen leadership philosophy for Africa’s development.

Source: Walta

The Minister of Communication and Information Technology in Ethiopia has successfully introduced unified utility billing system. The Ministry has completed 79 per cent of client registration within a month for inclusion in the new billing system. The billing system is aimed at improving utilities billing systems in Ethiopia.

According to Debretsion Gebremichael, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communication and Information Technology, the confusion and long queues created in the initial stage of the system a month ago has now been cleared and solved. Add a comment Add a comment

Ethiopia's inflation rate for food items for the Ethiopian month of Yekatit (February 8th-March 9th) plummeted to a single digit 7.9 per cent. The overall national inflation rate also fall to 10.3 percent for the same period, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group is to cooperate with the Ethiopian Ministry of Trade (MoT) and Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA) to help improve the country’s investment and trade environment.

The Ministry of Trade will launch an electronic business licensing and trade registration system shortly, while Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority will consider to revise its laws.