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Sisay Asefa
Sisay Asefa of Western Michigan University and Director of the Center for African Development Policy Research presents on “The Political Economy of Famine and Poverty in Ethiopia.”
Sisay Asefa
Professor, Department of Economics Director, Center for African Development Policy Research (CADPR), Western Michigan University
 
Sisay Asefa is a Professor of Economics at Western Michigan University. Prior to coming to Western Michigan University, he taught at Iowa State University, where he received his Master of Science in Agricultural Economics and his Doctorate in Philosophy in Economics 1980. He also directs the Center for African Development and Policy Research which he helped establish at WMU in 2000. Professor Asefa has been a visiting scholar at Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Botswana, University of Pretoria, Oxford University, and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is the recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships of various lengths. He was Fulbright-Hays Scholar to Botswana, 1987-88, and was Fulbright Visiting Professor to Addis Ababa University and the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2002. Most recently, he received a Senior Fulbright Specialist for six weeks in 2005 at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Professor Asefa was listed in the Global Who’s Who in Economics in 2000. He is a member of the external advisory panel of Michigan State University Department of Agricultural Economics, and has been a member of various departmental and university committees.
 
Paper/Presentation: The Political Economy of Famine and Poverty in Ethiopia
The purpose of this paper is to provide a perspective on some critical issues and questions related to the challenges of implementing the initiative put forth by the leaders of the 2004 international G-8 summit, which declared a commitment to end famine and poverty in the Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. The paper is broken up into the following sections:
     
  1. The Economist’s View of sustainable development
  2. Horn of Africa- A brief over view
  3. Land issue and Land policy in Ethiopia
  4. Ethnic Federalism, Food Insecurity, and Rural Vulnerability
  5. The G-8 and Foreign Assistance to Ethiopia and the Horn
  6. The Role of Government in Markets and the Private Sector
  7. Democratic institutional building for alleviating poverty and Famine
  8. Concluding Remarks
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