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From Bullets to the Ballot Box
Kinfe Abraham (1950-2007) was one of Ethiopia’s leading academics, although his books are not well known outside of the country. In this post I pull some though provoking quotes and ideas from his 1994 publication “Ethiopia from Bullets to the Ballot Box: The Bumpy Road to Democracy and the Political Economy of Transition”. The book […]
Dessalegn Rahmato on de Soto (Property Law)
A previous post covered the main arguments of Dessalegn Rahmato’s “The Peasant and the State: Studies in Agrarian Change in Ethiopia, 1950s-2000s” (2008), this highlights some interesting critiques ofDe Soto’s influential book and argument: “To begin with, by over-emphasizing the determinant role of property law and its legalization de Soto adopts a state-centric view of […]
The Peasant and the State
Dessalegn Rahmato is one of Ethiopian social scientists, his ideas and publications have shifted public perceptions on issues of land and the rural smallholder farmers. This posts draws upon his work, “The Peasant and the State: Studies in Agrarian Change in Ethiopia, 1950s-2000s” (2008), which is essential reading for anyone interesting in rural Ethiopia. As […]
Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia
Bahru Zewde has written an excellent book on the history of the student movement in Ethiopia, this book goes back further, to the late 1800s and early 1900s, exploring the activities and impact of the intellectuals of that time period. The book, “Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century” […]
Peasant Households and their Resource Base
A previous post highlighted a publication from Ethiopia, which tend to be lesser known (and harder to find). This post highlights an old publication, similarly challenging to locate copies of, but may prove quite useful for those looking for historical data points for comparability: “Competition and Co-operation: North Ethiopian Peasant Households and their Resource Base” […]
Hunting Causes and Using Them
We frequently read and use claims based on claims of causation. Yet, infrequently do we explore if the claims are well founded, or if the methods are well suited to the claims being made. Nancy Cartwright’s “Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics” (2007) is a valuable resource to better engage with […]
Top Posts of 2017
The most read blog posts of 2017: 1. List of Ethiopian Academic Journals 2. Conducting Research in Ethiopia 3. Essential Development Studies Books 4. Whose Reality Counts? 5. PhD Reality Check Looking forward to more in 2018, with a continued focus on book reviews / commentaries (despite the fact that four of the five most […]
Blueprint for Revolution
Want to know how to use rice pudding, lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanize communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world? If so, that is the sub-title or Popovic’s “Blueprint for Revolution” (2015). For those familiar with this literature, many of Popovic’s tactics are of the Alinsky type. The book provides a […]
New Publication: Average Crop Yield (2001–2017) in Ethiopia
Cochrane, L. and Yeshtila W. B. (2018) Average Crop Yield (2002-2017) in Ethiopia: Trends at National, Regional and Zonal Levels. Data in Brief. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.12.039 Abstract: This article presents average agricultural yield data per hectare for key cereal, legume and root crops from 2001 until 2017. Data was obtained from the annual Agricultural Sample Surveys of the […]
Civil Society and the Aid Industry
Civil society is said to provide “the agents of change that will cure a range of social and economic ills left by failures of government and the marketplace: autocracy, poverty, disenfranchisement, oppression, social malaise. Cornucopian expectations for social change have been heaped on this idea and, indeed, for some Northern donors in particular (both official […]
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Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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