This study analyzes the impacts of the recent rural road development in Ethiopia on welfare and economic outcomes. The … results of the econometric analysis overall suggest that Ethiopia's recent rural road development has substantially increased …. Furthermore, in the communities most affected by the El Nino drought, the likelihood of falling into poverty was 14.4 percent …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or … to produce estimates for several poverty indicators including headcount poverty, extreme poverty, poverty gap, near-poverty … surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …