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First, I would like to start by saying that in the past, foreign donors were major actors of economic policy formulation. At present too, it is not doubtful that Ethiopia stands in the receiving end of economic policy ideas, because, unavoidably, aid has become conditional on the implementation of donor/creditor driven policies. Reports indicate that a series of debates & negotiations have been made with major donors & creditors of our time (the WB &IMF), which introduced a number of revisions in the EPRDF’s line of economic policy thinking & economic program.  Also, it should be said in passing that, because pressures are still underway in different forms, it seems inevitable that the very development strategy of EPRDF (i.e. ADLI) will be the next candidate for revision owing to, on the one hand, agriculture’s continued disappointing performance to reduce Ethiopia’s increasing dependence on food aid and, on the other, agriculture’s failure as an engine of growth in the non-agricultural sector of the economy as stipulated in ADLI’s document. We turn to this in section one of this article.