{"id":20235,"date":"2019-02-01T04:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=20235"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:20:08","slug":"ethiopia-set-to-host-the-world-economic-forum-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2019\/02\/01\/ethiopia-set-to-host-the-world-economic-forum-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia set to host the World Economic Forum in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopia_set_to_host_the_World_Economic_Forum_in_2020_300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopia_set_to_host_the_World_Economic_Forum_in_2020_300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopia_set_to_host_the_World_Economic_Forum_in_2020_300x200-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopia_set_to_host_the_World_Economic_Forum_in_2020_300x200-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Africa has decided to host The World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020 in Ethiopia, as the Eastern African nation hopes to attract more investment.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made following a meeting between Prof Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of WEF and  Ethiopia\u2019s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the prime minister said the two leaders discussed the importance of a collaborative approach among government, civil societies and private sector in addressing key global challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy previously attended the WEF 2019 meeting held in Davos, Switzerland, where he met several business leaders before heading to Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy courts investors<br \/>\nAbiy, who has advocated reforms since taking office in April last year, called upon investors in Davos to take advantage of the huge business opportunities available in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Reiterating Ethiopia\u2019s plans to liberalise the previously state-controlled sectors of aviation, banking and telecommunications, among others, Abiy pledged to do more to make it easier to do business for anyone planning to invest in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to enforce our up word trajectory and achieve even more rapid and sustainable growth, Ethiopia has embarked on a comprehensive reform process since last April,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa has decided to host The World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020 in Ethiopia, as the Eastern African nation hopes to attract more investment. The announcement was made following a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49128,"featured_media":20237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[401],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}