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The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … poverty values in the hypothetical and actual cases are then compared. There is a significant reduction in poverty while …
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impact of negative shocks, taking into account informal risk-sharing arrangements. Using panel data from Ethiopia, we find …
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dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and … greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …-fundamentalist approach to African development, but the short-term imperative of reducing poverty necessitates further agricultural investment. …
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This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including...
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level in rural Ethiopia. We reject perfect risk-sharing, but find evidence of partial risk-sharing via transfers. There is …
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possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to …
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
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This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
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survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000 observations with ten and fewer workers. The analysis shows that firms larger in …
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to household income inequality in southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita …
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