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Show 56 government was increasingly preoccupied with the ever-increasing half of the 1980s, the economy into the squeezed policies, led to a war complete socialist economic conditions effort and policies result of the as a came to a standstill. Meager resources But the by then, unsustainable and collapse parties by regime." Mengistu's the This Ethiopia: a 'mixed economic a Ethnic Federalism Tigray People's Liberation Front of government to change Derg made too little too late. 1991, the Ethiopian People's Liberation Front (EPRDF), dominated world economic facing changing of the Soviet Union in late 1980s, the measures were 2.4. Post-1991 In being of the fact that the Cognizant last minute attempt to liberalize the economy with its declaration of system.' were this, coupled with the existing misguided economic meltdown of the economy. were conflicts in the second appeared a coalition of ethnic (TPLF), provide a overthrew the fresh start to the country, which had endured years of economic mismanagement, frequent drought and unceasing civil war. Upon assuming in which almost all conference, The conference approved conference gave a a power, the EPRDF government participants pluralism, transitional period was dominated by EPRDF. implement a reorganization 25"Until about handpicked and policies. The most of the country into Although the the government that it created for the The EPRDF-Ied government also set out to important of these regional governments 1990, the TPLF also presented a ethnically organized. transitional charter for the next two years. semblance of political series of were organized policy based initiatives on was the ethnic/linguistic a forbidding ideological facade, with an uncompromising interpretation of Marxism-Leninism that led its leaders at one point to proclaim themselves 'pro-Albanian.' The TPLF thus isolated itself both through its ethnic exclusiveness and its extreme ideological stance. The development of ethnic parties affiliated with the EPRDF was designed to overcome this isolation but proved inadequate." (Ottaway 1999, p. 78) dedication to a Stalinist |
