Ethiopia is exposed

[Idilinaa]

What you mean they cook their books? Like eating them

It's a figure of expression, it's means they use accounting tricks to make it look more profitable.

Cook the books is a slang term for using accounting tricks to make a company's financial results look better than they really are. Typically, cooking the books involves manipulating financial data to inflate a company's revenue, deflate expenses, and pump up profit.

I think Kenya's GDP numbers and agricultural output are more accurate.

@Rayaale i don't think they cook their books to the same level as Ethiopia and it has other productive sectors that bring in revenue so they don't have to rely on inflating agricultural production numbers.

But there was a massive scandal around fake fertilizers and seeds.

 

[Rayaale]

What you mean they cook their books? Like eating them

They overinflate their gdp, the average Kenyan is much poorer than a Somali

 

[novanova]

Ethiopia never modernized socially or politically, its ruling elite continues to act like medieval lords, while the people remain in poverty

Even today, Ethiopia's rural areas function like feudal villages, with landless peasants controlled by government-backed elites.