Q: Is the Euro going up or down against the Ethiopian Birr?Ī: Today's exchange rate (60.6299) is higher compared to yesterday's rate (60.2583).Ī: 50 Euros buys 3031.495 Ethiopian Birr at interbank exchange rates. Q: What is the Euro worth against the Ethiopian Birr?Ī: One Euro is worth 60.6299 Ethiopian Birr today
To convert Euros to Ethiopian Birr or determine the Euro Ethiopian Birr exchange rate simply use the currency converter on the right of this page, which offers fast live exchange rate conversions today! On Thursday, Abiy’s newly appointed central bank governor, Yinager Dessie, pledged to meet the business community regularly and pledged that their main concerns - scant access to credit and foreign exchange - were government priorities.For full history please visit EUR/ETB exchange rate history page His moves to liberalise the economy by opening up lucrative state-owned assets to foreign investment have been cheered by his people as well as outside investors keen to enter one of Africa’s last untapped markets. Since taking office in April, Abiy has turned politics and the economy on its head in the nation of 100 million people. The dollar shortage has also dissuaded international firms from investing out of fear they will struggle to repatriate profits.
Since earlier this year, essential items including insulin, blood pressure medication and infant formula have become scarce. “All of a sudden this is happening,” said one real estate agent whose business had come to a standstill over the past year because the construction sector could not access dollars to import building materials.Ī decade-long infrastructure push aimed at industrialising the overwhelmingly agrarian nation to create jobs has as a side-effect exacerbated the dollar shortage. On Wednesday, the birr traded as high as 92 a dollar on the black market, while the official rate remained at 52.5, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. * New prime minister has turned politics, economy on its headĪDDIS ABABA, July 20 (Reuters) - A “hard currency amnesty” and reform-driven confidence in Ethiopia’s economy, both at home and abroad, have helped close a once yawning gap between the official and black market exchange rates for its birr currency.Īs cash - in some cases briefcases full of dollars - pours into banks, local businesses say they are finally feeling relief from a foreign exchange crunch that had seen some segments of the economy grind to a halt.īusinesses and analysts in the capital Addis Ababa told Reuters on Friday the birr was trading on the parallel market around 28 to the dollar, close to parity with the official rate and 25 percent firmer than three months ago. * Ethiopia’s economy has faced crippling forex shortage
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