Export performance of industrial parks after Ethiopia’s de-listing from AGOA (Nov 2022)

The Ethiopian economy has been for over a decade one of the fastestgrowing economies in Africa with policies supporting high-productivity in the manufacturing sector. In recent years, the government invested billions of public funds to build and maintain a network of industrial parks (IP). This, coupled with the availability of a largely untapped labor, attracts big international brands. This strategy has enabled the activation and productivi