Ethiopia is drafting a new bill that will allow Share Companies to issue bonds to the public for financing projects. The issue of bonds will depend on the company receiving security guarantees from the National Bank.

The new bill informally known as the ‘Pro-shareholders Bill’ will change the current system whereby only the National Bank of Ethiopia, the Development Bank of Ethiopia and municipality administrations where the only entities issuing bonds.

It was a gift with strings attached, but that was just fine with Bekelech Basa.

The single mother of six children from this small community about five hours southwest of Addis Ababa was given a goat on the condition that she give up its first-born kid. It's just one example of how aid is changing.

Basa was given the goat by the Ethiopian Kale-Heywet church, part of a revolving goat herd project operated by the church with assistance from Canadian-based Evangelical Missionary Church through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. By taking the first-born goat, the church can build its herd and provide a similar start for other families.