Review Article
Determinants of the Performance of Farmers' Cooperatives in Ethiopia
Melesse Zeleke Agegnehu*
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2024
Pages:
183-186
Received:
16 October 2024
Accepted:
6 November 2024
Published:
26 November 2024
Abstract: Farmers' cooperatives play a crucial role in Ethiopia's agricultural development by enhancing market access, providing inputs and financial services, and improving smallholder farmers' bargaining power. Despite their potential, many cooperatives struggle due to economic, governance, and environmental challenges. While various studies have explored these issues, an up-to-date and comprehensive synthesis of the literatures is essential to aggregate those findings and explore the common themes towards the key determinants. Therefore, this review synthesizes over two decades of researches to explore the determinants of the farmers’ cooperative performance in Ethiopia, focusing on economic, institutional, social, environmental, and technological factors. Access to credit, effective governance, and social cohesion emerge as critical determinants of cooperative success. Additionally, external support and technological adoption enhance their growth, while environmental factors such as climate variability present significant risks. Then, the review concludes, most of the cooperatives perform below the expected, that collaborative work between the members themselves and the government is invaluable for increasing the efficiency of cooperatives, and in turn, achieves the ultimate goals of improving the farmers overall wellbeing. Hence, the review would like to provide policy recommendations such as strengthening cooperative governance structures, enhancing credit access, promoting adoption & technology provision, and encouraging sustainable land management practices which would increase resilience and productivity of cooperative members.
Abstract: Farmers' cooperatives play a crucial role in Ethiopia's agricultural development by enhancing market access, providing inputs and financial services, and improving smallholder farmers' bargaining power. Despite their potential, many cooperatives struggle due to economic, governance, and environmental challenges. While various studies have explored ...
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Research Article
Unpacking the Impact of Political Instability on Economic Growth in Ethiopia: Analysis of the Direct and Indirect Pathways (1995-2020)
Fikre Kura*
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2024
Pages:
187-212
Received:
28 October 2024
Accepted:
22 November 2024
Published:
27 December 2024
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijebo.20241204.12
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Abstract: Political stability is extensively recognized as a crucial determinant of economic growth and development in a broader context. Grounded in this assertion, this research endeavor sought to explore the correlation between political instability and economic growth within the Ethiopian context from 1996 to 2020. Throughout the duration of the study, Ethiopia has implemented various institutional reform initiatives aimed at fostering economic growth and establishing a stable political environment. Macro-level trend analyses substantiate that, over the last twenty years, Ethiopia has achieved significant economic growth, albeit hampered by macroeconomic mismanagement; nevertheless, the federation has not succeeded in attaining a stable political framework. In this context, employing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, this investigation has revealed a long-term co-integration between political instability and economic growth in Ethiopia, with political instability exerting a negative and significant impact on economic growth in both the short and long term. Additionally, the study has identified that political instability adversely influences economic growth by diminishing investment, human capital, labor, and the country’s exports. Consequently, it is proposed that ensuring political stability constitutes one of the essential prerequisites for achieving sustainable and accelerated economic growth in Ethiopia.
Abstract: Political stability is extensively recognized as a crucial determinant of economic growth and development in a broader context. Grounded in this assertion, this research endeavor sought to explore the correlation between political instability and economic growth within the Ethiopian context from 1996 to 2020. Throughout the duration of the study, E...
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