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Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU International Conference on African Development Center for African Development Policy Research Archives 8-2001 Private Sector Development in Ethiopia Solomon Deneke Follow this and a itional works at : /africancenter_icad_archive Part of the African Stu ies Commons, and the Economics Commons WMU ScholarWorks Citation Deneke, Solomon, Private Sector Development in Ethiopia (2001). International Conference on Afr ican Developm ent Archives. Paper 19. /africancenter_icad_archive/19 This Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for African Development Policy Research at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Conference on African Development Archives by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact maira.bun za@. PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN ETHIOPIA PREPARED by Solomon Deneke May, 2001. PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN ETHIOPIA I. INTRODUCTION Ethiopia is known for its longstanding freedom and civilization that go as back as over three thousand years. Unfortunately the country is now known as backward, least developed and one of the poorest of the poor. This historic plight has its own background and long process that this paper does not intend to get into. The major objective of this paper is to assess private sector that plays a paramount role in the Ethiopian economy. The importance of private sector in an eco