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The Coffee Crisis
This video from Wide Angle presents the efforts taken by the Ethiopian government to mitigate the impact of the 2008 global economic collapse, by calling upon the fledgling Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) to start trading coffee—the nation’s primary cash crop—before it is prepared to do so.
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9-12 |
Video |
The Moving Parts of a Market
This video adapted from Wide Angle: "The Market Maker" examines market reformers’ successful efforts to bring a modern commodity exchange to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, and the obstacles faced in gaining wider acceptance throughout the country.
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9-12 |
Video |
Next StepsWhile the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) celebrate success, they still face massive challenges bringing the ECX to Ethiopia’s millions of poor subsistence farmers in this video from Wide Angle.
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9-12 |
Video |
Trading Up: Bringing Ethiopia’s Economy Into The 21st CenturyIn this video from Wide Angle Ethiopian reformers create a new commodities exchange to modernize traditional approaches to trade. |
9-12 |
Lesson Plan |
Why Trade MattersAn introduction to the challenges faced by the developing Ethiopian economy and the tragic consequences of its collapse in 1984, excerpted from Wide Angle: "The Market Maker."
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9-12 |
Video |
Winning the Farmers' Trust
This video from Wide Angle follows Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) market reformers as they attempt to win sesame farmers’ trust and get them to deposit their crops in ECX warehouses.
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9-12 |
Video |
