Edited by Fantu Cheru, Senior Researcher and Emeritus Professor, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Christopher Cramer, Professor of the Political Economy of Development, SOAS, University of London, UK, and Arkebe Oqubay, Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister

Fantu Cheru is Emeritus Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington DC, USA, and a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Between 1998 and 2001, Prof Cheru was the UN Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt for the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. He was Associate Senior Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden, and the North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada. From 2007 to 2012, Cheru was Research Director at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. Dr Cheru was a member of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Panel on Mobilizing International Support for the New Partnership for African Development (2005-07) as well as Convener of the Global Economic Agenda Track of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy, Finland. Dr Cheru has served both as adviser and consultant to many governments and donor institutions and is on the editorial board of several scholarly journals.

Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University of London. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, he is also Vice-Chair of the Royal African Society and a former Chair of the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London. He chairs the International Scientific Committee of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), based at the DTI in South Africa; was the principal investigator on the Fairtrade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda research project; has worked in South Africa and Ethiopia on the 'industrialisation of freshness'; and, amongst other publications, wrote the prize-winning Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries. He has undertaken commissions for the World Bank, UNCTAD, ILO, EU, SIDA, DfID, and other agencies, and has worked with policy officials in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Mozambique.

Arkebe Oqubay is a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister and has been at the centre of policymaking for over 25 years. He is a former Mayor of Addis Ababa and Minister of Works and Urban Development. He currently serves as board chair of several leading public organisations and international advisory boards. He is a research associate at the Centre of African Studies at SOAS, University of London. His work includes Made in Africa: Industrial Policy in Ethiopia (OUP, 2015); African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy (OUP, 2019); and China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (OUP, 2019). He was recognized as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2016 and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the New African for his work on industrial policies.

Teferi Abate Adem, Yale University
Kibrom A. Abay, International Livestock Research Institute
Edlam Abera, UNECA
Annet Abenakyo Mulema, International Livestock Research Institute
K.Y. Amoako, African Center for Economic Transformation
Mesele W. Araya, Addis Ababa University
Berihu Assefa Gebrehiwot, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Guush Berhane, International Food Policy Research Institute
Yohannes Ayalew Birru, National Bank of Ethiopia
Shiferaw Bekele, Addis Ababa University
Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge
Christopher Clapham, Cambridge University
Ken Coutts, University of Cambridge
Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford
Tadele Ferede,
Belachew M. Fikre, Ethiopian Investment Commission
Belay File, Ethiopian Civil Service University
Assefa Fiseha, Addis Ababa University
Mulu Gebreeyesus, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher, Addis Ababa University
Jenna Golan, Cornell University
Douglas Gollin, University of Oxford
Fiseha Haftetsion Gebresilassie, Policy Studies and Research Centre of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Sarah Hager, Peking University
Laura Hammond, SOAS, University of London
Assefa Hailemariam, Addis Ababa University and Birhan Research and Development Consultancy
Jostein Hauge, University of Cambridge
Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute
Kalle Hirvonen, International Food Policy Research Institute
John Hoddinott, Cornell University
Deborah Johnston, SOAS, University of London
Won L. Kidane, Seattle University School of Law and Addis Law Group
Tadesse Kuma Worako, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Christina Laskaridis, SOAS, University of London
Carlos Lopes, University of Cape Town
Mekonnen Manyazewal
Haileselassie A. Medhin, Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Alemu Mekonnen, Addis Ababa University and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Kidane Mengesteab, Pennsylvania State University
Bart Minten, International Food Policy Research Institute
Likimyelesh Nigussie, International Water Management Institute
Fantu Nisrane Bachewe, IFPRI-ESSP
Seid Nuru Ali, Ethiopian Economics Association and Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute
Izumi Ohno, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Kenichi Ohno, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Carlos Oya, SOAS, University of London
Thomas Reardon, International Food Policy Research Institute
Zinabu Samaro Rekiso, Tallinn University of Technology
Florian T. Schäfer, SOAS, University of London
John Sender, SOAS, University of London
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, International Food Policy Research Institute
Admasu Shiferaw, College of William and Mary
Abebe Shimeles, African Development Bank
Måns Söderbom, University of Gothenburg
Cornelia Staritz, Austrian Foundation for Development Research
John Sutton, London School of Economics
Fanaye Tadesse, Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Menberetsehai Tadesse, Addis Ababa and Adigrat Universities
Tesfachew Taffere,
Seneshaw Tamru, KU Leuven
Ayelech Tiruwha Melese, Roskilde University
Helen Walls, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Lindsay Whitfield, Roskilde University
Tassew Woldehanna, Addis Ababa University and Ethiopian Development Research Institute
Jiajun Xu, Peking University
Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University

"The editors of this massive volume on the Ethiopian economy have commendably sought to include as many viewpoints as possible while emphasizing empirical approaches. The book covers the major issues, including macroeconomic policy, the development of the social welfare system, agriculture, and industrial policy." - Foreign Affairs