Pro-Poor Spending Share Falls as Ethiopia Expands 2025/26 Budget
The share of Ethiopia’s federal budget going to poverty-reducing expenditure has fallen to 41 percent in the 2025/26 fiscal year, down from 46 percent a year earlier, even as total government spending rises to Br1.92 trillion. The decline marks a shift in the composition of public expenditure, with debt servicing, wages and other recurrent costs...