National Blueprint · One of 195
A nation of 135.5 million on Africa’s great highland plateau, whose energy is almost entirely renewable and whose reform programme the IMF has backed with $3.4 billion.
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Where Ethiopians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Ethiopia: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.
Become a Co-designerDesign Studio · Work with Perfect Nations
Every mandate makes the same four moves for Ethiopia. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.
A private session for the people who decide.
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
Led personally by the President and CEO.
For the Government of Ethiopia, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
Green, gold and red, with a star of unity on a disc of blue. You are one of the oldest nations on earth, and almost all of your electricity already comes from water, wind and sun.
“Your rivers already light the nation. Now let them light a clean stove in every Ethiopian kitchen.”
Dispatches
Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Ethiopia, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Selam Tesfaye, Nation Steward of Ethiopia.
All dispatchesDispatches appear here as soon as they are published.
Design Studio · Writings
An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Ethiopia and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.
Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Ethiopia closer to Perfect Capita.
24 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.
The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.
Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.
Below the scarcity line of 1,000 cubic metres: every drop must be stored, treated and reused.
Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.
What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Ethiopia toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.
Sovereign AssetsDesign Studio · Perfect Capita
The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Ethiopia at 7, by energy, with shelter at 8.1 and education at 9.6 next.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Ethiopia. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
The Research · Capital Architecture
The record in figures
The register
About $464 million released in July 2026; about $2.6 billion disbursed in total
A four-year programme behind the float of the birr and the restructuring of the nation’s debts.
International Monetary Fund
SourceSupport for economic reforms
Backs the reforms that opened the economy to investment and stabilised prices.
World Bank
Source$400M IDA credit and $24M from Denmark
Connects households, businesses and towns to the grid, aiming at six million people.
World Bank
SourceShort-term work for six million people
Pays food-insecure households for public works and helps 700,000 people start small businesses.
World Bank
Source
Selam TesfayeNation Steward of Ethiopia · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.
Design Studio · Enterprises
The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Ethiopia. Suggest one to include.
Suggest an enterpriseDesign Studio · Voices of Ethiopia
Launching soon“What does Ethiopia already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
We are looking for the people with real stories from Ethiopia: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.
The Ethiopia Design Studio is open
Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.
