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Economic implications of foreign exchange rationing in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Robinson, Sherman; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign transfers and capital inflows combined with expanded domestic credit to fund major increases in private and public investments in infrastructure and housing. However, this rapid growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933116
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Foreign exchange rationing, wheat markets and food security in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real terms. International prices of cereals also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132610
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Beyond agriculture versus nonagriculture: Decomposing sectoral growth–poverty linkages in five African countries:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for … agriculture given the importance of farm incomes for the poor, the extent to which this is true varies by country. In fact …, elasticities for certain nonagricultural sectors are much closer to those in agriculture. Overall, elasticities are typically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132734
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Foreign exchange rationing, wheat markets and food security in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports. Government imports and subsidized sales to millers and households in late 2008, subsequently increased domestic supply and lowered market wheat prices, though market prices remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114804
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Economic implications of foreign exchange rationing in Ethiopia:
Dorosh, Paul A.; Robinson, Sherman; Ahmed, Hashim - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
This paper examines macro-economic developments in Ethiopia between 2004/05 and 2008/09, focusing on the external accounts and the real exchange rate. Simulations using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of Ethiopia's economy show that, compared to a policy of foreign exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114815