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Ethiopia: leveraging poverty

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Development, Economics & Business, Politics

Ethiopundit puts the Ethiopian government dispute [1] with Starbucks over trademark [2] in a historical perspective, ” Again? You see dear reader, back in 2002, Meles ran the same con game on Nestle and it worked. He cleverly crafted an image of a big bad corporation greedily going after the money of poor Ethiopians. Oh … and Oxfam was involved in that one too.”