{"id":1751,"date":"2026-03-16T07:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:07:06","slug":"ethiopia-highlights-strategic-partnership-with-italy-and-development-achievements-at-oecd-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/ethiopia-highlights-strategic-partnership-with-italy-and-development-achievements-at-oecd-peer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Highlights Strategic Partnership with Italy and Development Achievements at OECD Peer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AMN Plus-March13\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia reaffirmed its longstanding partnership with Italy during the OECD Development Co-operation Peer Review of Italy held in Paris under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ethiopian delegation was led by Semereta Sewasew, State Minister at Ethiopia\u2019s Ministry of Finance, and accompanied by Mahlet Hailu, Ethiopia\u2019s Ambassador to France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her remarks, State Minister Semereta highlighted the nearly five-decade partnership, noting Italy\u2019s consistent support across healthcare, water and sanitation, renewable energy, agriculture, infrastructure, and coffee value chain development. Cooperation has strengthened livelihoods, promoted private sector engagement, and contributed to economic and social resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state Minister emphasized that strong political leadership has guided Ethiopia\u2019s ambitious reforms under the Home-Grown Economic Reform Agenda. These reforms have delivered tangible results, including a reduction of the budget deficit , fivefold growth in government revenues, fivefold increase in pro-poor spending, and modernization of public finance systems to enhance transparency and accountability as to Ministry of Finance Ethiopia reported it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMN Plus-March13\/2026 Ethiopia reaffirmed its longstanding partnership with Italy during the OECD Development Co-operation Peer Review of Italy held in Paris under the auspices of the OECD Development Assistance Committee. The Ethiopian delegation was led by Semereta Sewasew, State Minister at Ethiopia\u2019s Ministry of Finance, and accompanied by Mahlet Hailu, Ethiopia\u2019s Ambassador to France. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amn.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}