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Africa > Ethiopia > Government

ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Addis Ababa
Corruption 2.2 [142nd of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 2% [127th of 143]
Procedures to register property > number 13 ... [5th of 167]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 21.9 % ... [44th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 7 ... [132nd of 171]
Status pseudo-democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 133 days ... [131st of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 690 days ... [36th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 43 days ... [97th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 16 days ... [142nd of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 212 hours ... [99th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 2.4 years ... [98th of 151]
Trademarks, nonresidents 103 ... [95th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 239 ... [74th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by the 2002 Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but neither party responded to the revised line detailed in the November 2006 EEBC Demarcation Statement; UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), which has monitored the 25-km-wide Temporary Security Zone in Eritrea since 2000, is extended for six months in 2007 despite Eritrean restrictions on its operations and reduced force of 17,000; the undemarcated former British administrative line has little meaning as a political separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera and trade ties to landlocked Ethiopia; civil unrest in eastern Sudan has hampered efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia
UN membership date 13 Nov. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/ethiopia/eth_page/fs_mst.htm
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Cleveland Park

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik, Ityop'iya

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