i dont think their growth stats are fake. but ethiopia is coming from an extremely low base so will take a while before the entire country starts feeling the effects. what i think is obviously fake is their revised poverty stats. there is no way in hell ethiopia's poverty rate can be in the 20s percent.

I truly believe the economic growth is real. What worries me is imprisonment and butchering of university students and marginalization of the Oromo.

Am not Kenyan. Am Albanian like you.

I am glad to meet a fellow Albanian


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It has been done before. Goldman Sachs allegedly finagled Greece's economic numbers prior to its joining the Euro. That doctored outlook may have played a role with some creditors when they decided to buy Greece's junk debt.
There could be a case of disparity between what is on paper and the reality on ground. I remember reading an analysis on the interwebs that said that to gauge the warmth of a countries economy, take a drive in its prominent urban areas. This was in reference to India and China where there is a lot of new infrastructure (buildings etc etc), and while the towers look impressive on a fly-by, the are dark and un-inhabited at night,...telling a different story of tenants not being able to take them up...ergo slower growth than appears on paper. Narrow point, but still goes to show ..