What really matters in these rankings?
GDP per capita? Nominal GDP? GDP PPP? Budget Estimates?

Seems Ethiopia attained supersonic with a very enviable growth rate in the foreseeable future, as we crawl n quarrel. Tz is hot on our heels. We need more quails people!

[quote=murchr]That happened siku za Meles. He was very vocal about it. Our GDP is/was 40+Billion theirs 41+B and growing at +7%. Any matters here is the world bank link this one is ugly ----> http://databank.worldban...ta/download/GDP_PPP.pdf

Nominal http://databank.worldban...g/data/download/GDP.pdf[/quote]

Missed the news bw muchiri. Goes a long way to show how useless our media is, reporting untruths without the slightest shame.

It kind of confuses me why Abyssinia, despite a larger economy, a double digit economic growth n higher taxation regime, still registers little tax collection n hence lower budget estimates.

Hii macroeconomics ni ngumu kweli.

Agreed. Huko vitu bei kali sana. But there is a serious construction boom last time I checked. Addis was one massive construction site~chinese roads, urban rail n hundreds of buildings.

We need to reclaim our pride among east african dwarfs.

[quote=simonkabz]It appears we lost the bragging rights way back, but characteristically african, we are still "illegally holding onto power" at least in our hapless media. Views?

http://www.newafricanmag...fastest-growing-economy[/quote]
we discussed it on the same year we were overtaken

And do we have something like this in Kenya yawa?
http://panafricanvisions...ts-slavery-colonization/