{"id":168756,"date":"2025-09-20T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168756\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T01:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:10:06","slug":"ethiopias-former-central-bank-governor-rated-a-in-global-finance-report-kenya-leads-with-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168756\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s Former Central Bank Governor Rated A- in Global Finance Report, Kenya Leads with A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s outgoing central bank governor, Mamo Mihretu, has earned an \u201cA-\u201d grade in Global Finance\u2019s Central Banker Report Cards 2025, which evaluates central bank performance over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The report, produced annually since 1994 by the New York-based publication founded in 1987, assesses nearly 100 central bank governors on inflation control, currency stability, and political independence.<\/p>\n<p>In Africa, Kenya\u2019s Kamau Thugge and Morocco\u2019s Abdellatif Jouahri received \u201cA\u201d grades. Other African leaders in the A- category include Egypt\u2019s Hassan Abdalla, South Africa\u2019s Lesetja Kganyago, and Uganda\u2019s Michael Atingi-Ego.<\/p>\n<p>Mamo stepped down as governor on September 3 after serving since early 2023. During his tenure, he oversaw regulatory reforms in the banking sector and introduced new monetary policy tools.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has appointed Eyob Tekalign (PhD), former State Minister of Finance, as the new governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia. Eyob played a central role in the Homegrown Economic Reform programme and in coordinating debt restructuring efforts with international creditors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s outgoing central bank governor, Mamo Mihretu, has earned an \u201cA-\u201d grade in Global Finance\u2019s Central Banker Report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-168756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}