Poverty is pervasive, raising questions over how fast a consumer class will emerge.Agriculture is still a big source of national income, accounting for more than 40% of GDP andmore than 80% of employment. Almost all private businesses are small: family-ownedvendors and repair shops, the kind whose customers cannot suffer inflation for long. Creditis hard to come by for the unconnected. Only licensed exporters consistently benefit fromrepeated devaluations of the currency. To invest in Ethiopia is to invest in the frontier.

　　贫穷无处不在，到底有消费者能力的阶层能多快增长，这是个问题。农业仍然是国家收入的一大来源，占据GDP的 40%，并促进了80%的就业人口。几乎所有的私人企业都是小企业：家族小贩和维修店，这些人不可能在那么长的通胀经济中坚持住。而没有关系网的商家，也很难有信誉。只有拥有经营执照的出口商才能从不断贬值的货币中稳定获利。投资埃塞俄比亚如同在投资在前线阵地。

　　That suits Gabriel Schulze, who runs SGI . He is thescion of an American frontier family. His great-great-grandfather, William Boyce Thompson,flirted with bankruptcy in the Old West and founded Newmont Mining, now a $23 billioncompany. Mr Schulze operates smoothly in Ethiopia because of connections built through hisfamily . In 2008 he established apermanent office in the capital, staffed by members of Ethiopia s class of returning exiles,including two daughters of former officials under the late emperor, Haile Selassie.

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