ETHIOPIA

Quick Facts of Ethiopia

Published by Time Inc. 2014

Since this week in class we learned about Less Developed Countries, and will be starting a project on the country we have chosen I thought I'd do a little background search. I will be doing my global project on Ethiopia. These are just some quick facts about Ethiopia but I can't wait to research it more and learn the more economical side of the country. 

Official name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Size: 426,373 square miles (1,104,300 square kilometers); about twice the size of Texas

Population: 90,873,739 as of 2011

Capital: Addis Ababa

Climate: Moderate in highlands; hot and dry in lowlands

Languages: Amharic, Arabic, English, Oromigna, Tirigna, others

Currency: Birr

Products: Coffee, cereals, sugarcane, oilseeds, honey

We are Watching the Market

This week we have continued our lesson on competition, and also studied market structures, which is all very exciting and new. However, we have been introduced to a new game. We are now starting to play MarketWatch where we actually act as stock holders, trading and selling stocks. We are all competing against each other and possibly our parents if they chose to join in the fun. Only my mother said she would probably have -$0 if that is even a thing. But for now the competition is fierce, we are hoping we made good investments so we can earn the special prizes at the end of the month. Today was the first day of our trades and it seems like we are all doing pretty well. So i hope we can keep it up and turn out to be great investors in the stock market!