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Ethiopia: More fragile than it looks

Ethiopia’s investment-focused economic model has attracted widespread praise, but has also created dangerous external vulnerabilities. Were domestic instability or EM-wide risk aversion to cause funding to dry up, the country would quickly face a painful balance of payments crisis.

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