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The Minister of Industry, Mekonnen Manyazewal said, the government will concentrate on improving the capacity of foreign trade investors both in terms of quality of exports and earnings in conference organized jointly with the Ministry, Ethiopian Development Research Institute and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Thursday.

On the half day consultative forum, the Minister said, enhancing capacity of domestic export producers is among the government’s priority areas and the government will further its incentives through coordinated support and promotion to raise quality of export produce and earnings.

The Ethiopian government has selected the Irish League of Credit Unions to develop credit unions in the country, the Ethiopian Herald reported.

The Ethiopian government has submitted its draft budget for the 2025/26 fiscal year to the House of People's Representatives (HPR), with total proposed expenditures nearing two trillion birr.

The Ethiopian government is taking measures to reduce the rate of inflation to single digits this fiscal year according to the National Bank.

The government has stopped borrowing from the central bank as part of the effort to reduce inflation explained bank executives speaking to the Budgetary and Finance Standing Committee of the House of Peoples' Representatives on Monday.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry stated that the government and pertinent institutions are committed to exert maximum effort to balance the country’s import and export trade. Misganaw Arega, Trade and Industry State Minister, said Ethiopia’s trade balance between import and export should be narrowed to reach the long-term goals of the country.