Ethopia: New report reveals concentration of banking loans among few borrowers persists, agriculture sector sidelined  

Addis Abeba – A striking imbalance persists within Ethiopia’s banking industry, where a mere 0.5% of borrowers hold nearly three-quarters of all loans, while the agricultural sector continues to be marginalized in terms of credit access.

A new report from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) reveals that large borrowers—those with credit exposure exceeding 10 million birr—hold 74.8% of total loans.

The NBE attributes this significant concentration of credit to “the past practice of large-scale lending to major state…