- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … and a hypothetical agricultural shock, in a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia. The results suggest that while …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in … 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the … pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of …

Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Several data …We adapt the standardized Poverty Line Estimation Analytical Software (PLEASe) computer code stream based on Arndt and …-related issues create challenges to estimating the spatial and temporal distribution of poverty in a manner that meets both …