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Somalia and ethiopia living standards
- Thread starter Midas
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Ethiopians try to justify their occupation (and treatment) of galbeed by falsely claiming Somalia is much worse and its a terrorist filled anarchic country when that is far from the truth. Puntland alone is richer and better developed than DDS. Somalis in Garowe are enjoying the increased prosperity while Somalis in nearby Dollo zone are stuck in perpetual poverty.
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Yea my family is from a small town in somali galbeed and they never see oromos passing though and theres none of them that live there but they suddenly go over the border to somaliland to beg without anyone noticing
We kick them out.
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By cost metrics, Ethiopia is more expensive. The prices for cars are ridiculously high.
This car costs 160,000 USD:
That is more than double the price of what it costs in any Western country.
A relatively decent 3-room flat in Addis Ababa costs the same as a western one. When measured proportionally to the earnings of the average Ethiopian, the prices are getting too imbalanced before they reach the mid-range development. Ethiopia is choking its economy by design.
This car costs 160,000 USD:
That is more than double the price of what it costs in any Western country.
A relatively decent 3-room flat in Addis Ababa costs the same as a western one. When measured proportionally to the earnings of the average Ethiopian, the prices are getting too imbalanced before they reach the mid-range development. Ethiopia is choking its economy by design.
Ethiopia is, to an extent, a city-state. An incredible amount of the government's budget is spent on Addis. It is in some ways Ethiopia's only real city.
The empire, the DERG, the TPLF and now Abiy have invested in Addis Ababa to an extent that is remarkable even by African standards. Addis is not Ethiopia, it is huge outlier that has maybe 5% of Ethiopia's population. What makes Addis absolutely strange is that it contains most of Ethiopia's financial and intellectual power.
The rest of Ethiopia is mostly very poor hinterland.
The empire, the DERG, the TPLF and now Abiy have invested in Addis Ababa to an extent that is remarkable even by African standards. Addis is not Ethiopia, it is huge outlier that has maybe 5% of Ethiopia's population. What makes Addis absolutely strange is that it contains most of Ethiopia's financial and intellectual power.
The rest of Ethiopia is mostly very poor hinterland.
They are making the same mistake we did when we used to pour everything into xamar, one of the only good things that came out from the civil war was somalis understanding the need to diversify and we have implemented it quite well when you look at cities like garowe,hargeisa, kismayo and more. If ethiopia doesnt stop pouring everything into addis they will have the same outcome as us but on a larger and more devastating scale.
If you want to understand Ethiopia read the following new books:
The Abiy Project by Tom Gardner (published 2024)
Ethiopia's 'Developmental State' by Tom Lavers (published 2024)
The Abiy Project by Tom Gardner (published 2024)
Ethiopia's 'Developmental State' by Tom Lavers (published 2024)
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