Browsing by Author "Mekonnen, Teferi"

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    An Assessment of the Roles of Grievance Hearing Office on the Promotions of Good Governance: The Case of Guna Begemidir woreda
    (AAU, 2020-08) Talema Guade, Dessalegn; Mekonnen, Teferi
    This study assessed the roles of grievance hearing offices on the promotions of good governance in Guna Begemidir wereda. In this study a simple descriptive research design was employed. It was also done by using a mixed approach research methodology. The questionnaires and interviews were used as data collection instruments or techniques. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using the Statistical Package for the Social Scientists (SPSS) computer software. A total of 320 respondents from 1,583 total populations were included in the study. The study also investigated by using purposive sampling. The data were gathered through questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed using percentage and Frequency whereas qualitative data were analyzed based on the quantitative dada. The study revealed that the grievance hearing offices in general plays a great role on the promotions of good governance but in Guna Begemidir wereda this office could not act as such. This was because the offices were ineffective in resolving the grievances of customers.The major short comes of the grievance hearing offices not to resolve the grievances of the customers were the low salary of the grievance hearing officers and the dependency of the grievance hearing offices by the supervisors. Though this were the major obstacles, but the lack of implementations of the given law and the low educational levels of the grievance hearing officers could also recognized by this study as the short comes of the grievance hearing offices. There were no actions taken by the grievance hearing offices in this wereda to strength their role in resolving citizens‘ grievances, but there are deferent indications to be taken to strengthen the grievance hearing offices. These include; the government is expected to prepare successive training for grievance hearing officials, allocate the proper payment for the employees‘ in the grievance hearing offices, the grievance hearing offices are also expected to clarifying their performance to the citizens. In addition to this, they also expected to be simplicity and promptness in their actions. In the same way, in order to make the performance of grievance hearing offices more effective and productive, the grievance hearing offices are expected to conform to the existing legislation. At the end of the investigation, this study also recommended to which it concerns.
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    The Blue Nile Issue: A History of Hydropolitics, 1884-1974
    (Addis Ababa University, 2004-03) Mekonnen, Teferi; Ahmed, Hussein (Professor)
    The hydropolitics of the Blue Nile had an impact on developments affecting modern Ethiopia. The issue has played a crucial role in the struggle between Ethiopia and the powers over the control of the lower basin, and was transformed in the nineteenth century. The century witnessed Egypt’s vigorous attempt to secure the unimpeded flow of the Blue Nile River. This development became more acute and gained a new momentum when European powers developed an interest in the region and realized that both the economic survival of Egypt and the prosperity of the Sudan were dependent on the good will of Ethiopia that had direct jurisdiction over the source of the Blue Nile. The main objective of the thesis is to show the dynamics of the hydropoltics of the Blue Nile within the broad context of Ethiopian history. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Blue Nile was one of the main factors that led the British to violate the Adwa or Hewett Treaty of 1884 and to promote the Italian colonial interest in Ethiopia up to 1896. By 1902, the British had ensured the unobstructed and continuous flow of the Blue Nile River. In the first half of the twentieth century, the British carried on protracted diplomatic negotiations with the Ethiopian government to secure a perennial water supply from the Blue Nile by constructing a dam at the outlet of Lake Tãnã and turning the lake into a water reservoir. Even though the British diplomatic efforts were a fiasco, they had an impact on the history of Ethiopia and the major events of the period. In the 1950s, Egypt’s decision to build the Aswan High Dam relegated all previous plans of developing the entire Nile Basin to insgnificance. The decision not only put the Lake Tãnã Dam project to the side line but also brought the hydropolitics of the Nile into its vortex. Subsquently, Ethiopia called for the equitable and fair utilization of the waters of the Nile as v well as planned to develop the Blue Nile Basin. This was the main factor behind Egypt’s hostile policy towards Ethiopia until the 1960s. This study argues that lack of far-sightedness particularly on the part of the powers intensified the Nile issue. The river could not be disconnected from national sentiment and treated as a common and shared natural resource among the riparian states. This is a major impediment to equitable and fair utilization of the waters of the Nile.
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    Contribution of Interest-free Banking to Economic Development and its Prospecting Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Mekonnen, Teferi; Duressa, Degefa (PhD)
    This study is aimed at evaluating the contribution of IFB to economic development of the country-Ethiopia, the level of stakeholder awareness and attitude towards the IFB services, the comparative advantages of IFB, the factors that account for the growth of IFB, and challenges and prospect in the Ethiopian context by considering two banks that are providing IFB services: Oromia International Bank S.C. and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. The study used both primary and secondary data. The secondary data was collected from clients’ files, reports, directives and working documents while the primary data was collected through structured questionnaire having Likert scale and other forms of measurement. Out of 200 target population of the study, 150 individuals’ sample was taken through stratified sampling techniques. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive analysis like tables, percentages and charts (using SPSS 20 version software) and t-test. The finding of the study depicts inadequacy of stakeholder awareness and experience in one hand, and limiting impact of the prevailing IFB provision on the service IFB on the other. Most respondents believe that IFB can potentially serve as an alternative banking channel in filling the gap left unaddressed by conventional banking and economic development: idle monetary resource mobilization and allocation, inviting to use banking system, creating employment opportunity, supporting GDP growth and assisting in stabilizing crisis and arresting inflation.. On top of that, the respondents suggested various factors that account for growth of IFB and forwarded valuable recommendations that help IFB to play the expected role in economic development. IFB prohibition on business dealings that are against the public interest is regarded by the writer as a new insight towards engaging in sustainable business while caring for the society. Some scholars around the world consider the use of IFB as more convenient for economic development. The result of this research also indicates that considering revisiting the infrastructure of IFB in Ethiopia could enhance its comfortable operation and its role in assisting economic development. In conclusion, IFB is deemed to play an integral role in Ethiopia in catalyzing the economic development subject to adequate awareness creation about its governing principles, compliance with prohibitions, familiarity with operating philosophies, expertise capacity building of operators-bankers, experience sharing from Islamic banking-pioneering countries, and devising enabling regulatory environment. Accordingly, plausible courses of action were forwarded by the researcher based on the conclusive results of the findings in conjunction with literature review reflections: creating awareness, providing tailored and sustainable training for practitioners, best-practice experience sharing from Islamic banking-pioneering countries, government support, revisiting the IFB provision for possible revision where applicable to an enabling level. Key words; IFB/Islamic banking/, CB, Sharia principle, economic development, Ethiopia
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    Cross-Section for Double Heavy Quarkonium Production in high Energy Electron-Positron Collisions
    (Addis Ababa University, 2010-06) Mekonnen, Teferi; Bhatnagar, Shashank (PhD)
    In this thesis we rst give a Lagrangian formulation of the gauge theories QED and QCD. We derive the Feynman rules for QCD . AS an application of the rule, we rst present the calculation of cross section for the process q+ q ! g+g as a mathematical preliminary. We then derive the 2-particle Bethe-Salpeter equation. Then we evaluate the cross section for the production of double heavy quarkonium production in high energy electron-positron collisions at the center of mass energy p s 10.6 GeV. The cross section for the process of e+e􀀀 ! J= + c at the stated energy has been calculated by applying the two-particle Bethe-Salpeter wave equation. We have used the heavy quark limit and calculated the cross section for the lowest order diagram. The results are in broad agreement with the Belle's data available recently