Economic Sectors Policy Study Sector
The Policy Study Institute was established with the primary mandate of conducting study and research and initiate policies and strategies. It was established with the mission to conduct policy studies and researches in order to formulate, propose and advise on policy and strategic issues essential for the development of the country.
Study Centers
Agricultural Modernization &Rural Development Policy Study Centre
Centre Coordinator
Tadesse Kuma (PhD)
Lead researcher
amrdpsc@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
Lead researcher
amrdpsc@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
Industry Policy Study Centre
Centre Coordinator
Amare Matebu Kassa (PhD)
Lead researcher
ipsc@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
Lead researcher
ipsc@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
Industrial Development Policy Study Center (IDPS) is one of the policy study center in the FDRE, Policy Study Institute. The major focus or thematic areas of this center are Manufacturing industries (Small, Medium and Large scale); Investment (Domestic private, FDI, Public); Export and Import-substitution policy; Technology transfer and development; labor market and labor policy; Industrial relations; Rural Industrialization, Industrial Parks Development, Industrial Standards and capacity of production; and others.
Objectives:
Completed Policy Research Projects are:
Policy Research Projects which are in progress are::
Objectives:
- Assess the existing gaps in Ethiopian industrial development policies/strategies and generate new policy/strategy ideas for the sustainable industrial development.
- Identify Industrial policy/strategy implementation gaps and propose solutions to minimize or avoid the gaps/problems through scientific study.
- Deliver a consultancy services to the stakeholders and actors in Ethiopian industrial development policy /strategy.
Completed Policy Research Projects are:
- Study of Agro-Food Processing Industries in Ethiopia: Policy and Strategy Options for its Development (2015-2025)
- Study of Non-Food Agro-Processing Industries in Ethiopia: Policy Options to Strengthen and Expand the Subsector (2015-2025)
- Study of development of iron ore and metallurgy industries: challenges, prospects and policy/strategy options (2015 –2025)
- Development of Ethiopian Steel Industries: Challenges, Prospects, and Policy Options (2015 –2025)
- የሀገር ውስጥ የግል ባለሀብት በአምራች ኢንዱስትሪው ውስጥ የሞተርነት ሚናውን ከመጫዎት አኳያ ያሉት ተግዳሮቶች፣ ዕድሎችና የመፍትሄ አቅጣጫዎች
- Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options for Effective Use to Stimulate Industrialization.
Policy Research Projects which are in progress are::
- በአምራች ኢንዱስትሪ የቴክኖሎጂ ሽግግርና ልማት ተግዳሮቶች፣ ዕድሎችና የፖሊሲ አማራጮች
- በኢትዮጵያ የአነስተኛና መካከለኛ ኢንዱስትሪዎች ልማት የፖሊሲና ስትራቴጂ አቅጣጫዎች
- SME Finance in Ethiopia: Project Impact Evaluation
- The impact, outreach and sustainability of BDS to MSMEs: Evidence from a large qualitative and quantitative survey in Ethiopia.
- Industrial relations, job quality and productivity in the Ethiopia labor intensive manufacturing industry.
- Using differentiated export tax (DET) to upgrade in value chains: is it efficient?
- Occupational choice and structural transformation in ethiopia.
- Exchange rate and export dynamics: Firm level evidence.
- Chinese Enterprises involvement in and contribution to Ethiopia’s industrialization: challenges, opportunities and policy suggestions.
- Female Manufacturing Employment and Empowerment in Ethiopia.
- Employment, Productivity, Wage Structure and Competitiveness in the Manufacturing Sector: An Empirical Assessment from Ethiopia.
- The Triple Challenges of Industrial Jobs and its impact on Employees welfare and Enterprise Productivity.
- Manufacturing Enterprises Contributions towards Urbanization and Urban Development.
- Understanding Industrial Parks.
- Group Entrepreneurship: Can Worker Cooperatives provide Viable Paths to Create Successful Enterprises?
- Improving Industrial Relations in Garment Industry.
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in Ethiopia.
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development: Determinants of Labor Turnover in Micro and Small Enterprise.
Urban & Infrastructure Development Policy Study Centre
Centre Coordinator
Title (PhD)
Lead researcher
uidpsc@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
Lead researcher
uidpsc@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
Urban & Infrastructure Development Policy Study Centre (UIDPSC) is one of the policy study center in the FDRE, Policy Study Institute. The major focus or thematic areas of this center are Urban Planning, urban land administration and management, Urban Infrastructure Development and service provision(Social and Physical),Urban Housing(housing as an investment and welfare), urban good governance and institutional capacity building, micro and small enterprise development, urban finance, urban greenery, and rural-urban linkage, construction industry and other.
Objectives:
Objectives:
- Assess the existing gaps in Ethiopian urban and infrastructure development policies/strategies and generate new policy/strategy ideas for the sustainable industrial development.
- Identify urban and infrastructure development policy/strategy implementation gaps and propose solutions to minimize or avoid the gaps/problems through scientific study.
- Deliver a consultancy services to the stakeholders and actors in Ethiopian industrial development policy /strategy.