The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, will travel to Ethiopia on February 8 and 9 as the country presses on with its major revamp of the economy.
The East African giant of some 120 million people has made a number of liberalising reforms in recent months in a bid to attract investors.
Though the economy is still largely state-controlled, the country launched its first stock exchange this month and has allowed its currency, the birr, to float freely against the dollar since last July.
Enforcing the currency peg had become unsustainable, draining the country's finances, and the IMF made the reform a condition of unlocking a $3.4-billion aid programme.
