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and a hypothetical agricultural shock, in a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia. The results suggest that while …
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We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in …
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Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data … especially problematic for consistency in the presence of annual inflation of over 30 per cent. In addition, the Ethiopia case …
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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a...
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the distributional effect of taxes and transfers (through social protection) using Ethiopia as a case study. We find that … currently Ethiopia's flagship social protection programme is more effective than income taxation in achieving poverty reduction … Ethiopia would have the capacity to achieve the desired level of redistribution by applying higher marginal rates on relatively …
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Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme is among the largest social protection programmes in Africa and has been … commitment can be understood in the context of shifts within Ethiopia's political settlement and the government's evolving …
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in the pre-and post-reform Ethiopia. We start by presenting evidence that regional inequality in educational attainment …. Given the regional concentration of ethnic and language groups in Ethiopia, further reducing the unequal distribution of …
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The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
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Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first-order dominance approach. It examines five welfare indicators:...
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Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress. The proportion of poor households that are ethnic minority-headed soared from 18 per cent in...
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