In Ethiopia, the level of institutional development of government is deteriorating with a concomitant negative impact on the development of social organization. These retrogressive processes have in turn retarded the accountability of the state. State and Civil Society provides an analysis of failure in development policy by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front lead government through the examination of its first fifteen years rule in Ethiopia. This in-depth analysis of the issue of civil society and the condition of state and society provides important insight into the question of why poverty and unfreedom reinforce each other in Ethiopia.

List of Acronyms

List of Tables

List of Persons Interviewed

List of Annexes

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PART ONE

Civil Society, State, and Poverty

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 The Discourse on Civil Society

CHAPTER 2 The Poverty – Unfreedom Nexus

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PART TWO

State and Society

CHAPTER 3 ‘State’ and Society: The Pre-EPRDF Setting

CHAPTER 4 The State of ‘Civil Society’ in Ethiopia

CHAPTER 5 The Dominant ‘Rationales’ Governing the Institutions of Governance and Ethnicization of Politics as its Doctrine

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PART THREE

The Poverty/Unfreedom Nexus: The EPRDF in View of Ethiopia’s Development Challenges

CHAPTER 6 Gender, Society, and Poverty

CHAPTER 7 The EPRDF vis-à-vis Ethiopia’s Development Challenges

Conclusion

Bibliography

Melakou Tegegn acquired his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of South Africa, Pretoria and has worked as a Development Consultant and Coordinator for many country and regional development programs with NGOs. He also lectured part time at the Institute of Gender Studies at the Addis Ababa University from 2001 to 2005. His publications include Ethiopia: Ethiopian Millennium Special Publication and The Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict: A Critical Observation.