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Addis Ababa City Administration Micro and Small Scale Enterprises announced it has created job opportunity for over 171,000 citizens. 

Addis Ababa City Administration gave plots of land to 7500 street vendors with a view to integrating informal businesspeople operating on the streets to the main stream small-scale legal businesses.

The Addis Ababa City Administration is planning to revise municipal service tariffs, based on a study of the Finance and Economy Development Bureau of the city. The new City Administration, led by Mayor Diriba Kuma, that took office two weeks ago, targets to collect 2.3 billion Ethiopian birr revenue from municipal services, according to the city's budget for the 2013/14 fiscal year.

In the just ended Ethiopian Fiscal Year (2012/13), the City has collected 1.6 billion birr from municipal service. In its annual report for the current year, the City’s Finance and Economic Development Bureau said the tariff adjustment, which will see a 43 percent increase in revenue from municipal services, will contribute to the city’s budget, alongside other revenue sources such as tax and non-tax revenue.

Addis Ababa City Administration’s Land Development and Management Bureau had has temporarily halted receiving manufacturing industries’ land requests, according to Addis Fortune.

The fourth round of the City's land lease auction held on July 24, 2013 attracted bids as high as 26,202 Ethiopian Birr for a square meter, Fortune reported.

The latest auction is the fourth round since the enactment of the revised lease holding of urban lands law in 2012. The Addis Ababa Land Bank and Transfer Agency announced a tender for auctioning of 95 plots on 40,000 meter of land on July 9, 2013. The plots were located in Akaki Kaliti, Bole, Yeka, Kirkos, Arada and Kolfe Keranio districts of the city.