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Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability: Empirical Evidence from Smallholders in Northern Highlands of Ethiopia
Tsehay, Abrham Seyoum; Bauer, Siegfried - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
This study is primarily intended to examine the dynamics and determinants of rural household poverty and vulnerability …, the trend has been found to vary across villages for both poverty and vulnerability measures. Besides, poverty … poverty appear to impact on vulnerability to poverty differently. Therefore, strategies aimed at reducing poverty should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881063
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Poverty Dynamics and Vulnerability: Empirical Evidence from Smallholders in Northern Highlands of Ethiopia
Tsehay, Abrham Seyoum; Bauer, Siegfried - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This study is primarily intended to examine the dynamics and determinants of rural household poverty and vulnerability …, the trend has been found to vary across villages for both poverty and vulnerability measures. Besides, poverty … poverty appear to impact on vulnerability to poverty differently. Therefore, strategies aimed at reducing poverty should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880364
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Vulnerability and poverty dynamics in Uganda, 1992-1999
Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2007
The paper uses a panel data set of 1309 households in Uganda to measure vulnerability to poverty between 1992/2000 and … to estimate the impact of household characteristics on vulnerability. The likelihood of future poverty is estimated based … infrastructure are found to have important impacts on vulnerability. Specifically the reduction in vulnerability to poverty increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879405
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Financial Services and Divisible Technology Dis-adoption among Farm Households: Theory and Empirical Application Using Data from Ethiopia
Guizar-Mateos, Isai; Dadzie, Nicholas - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
The adoption of improved varieties and technologies by rural agricultural households remains a major goal in development efforts. This is because researchers and development practitioners recognize it as a potential source of income growth for the poor. However, while studies on adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068721
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Welfare Impacts of Rising Food Prices in Rural Ethiopia: a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System Approach
Uregia, Nigussie Tefera; Desta, Mulat Demeke; Rashid, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Ethiopia has experienced high food prices, especially since 2005. This paper examines the welfare impacts of rising food prices in rural Ethiopia using Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) approach controlled for expenditure endogeniety and zero consumption expenditure. The elasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880286
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Determinants of Household Poverty Dynamics in Rural Regions of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Baiyegunhi, L.J.S.; Fraser, Gavin C.G. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE; … - 2010
beyond a cataloging of who is currently poor and who is not, to an assessment of households’ vulnerability to poverty. This … determinants of households’ vulnerability to poverty. The result of the study indicates that the number of vulnerable households is … significantly larger than for the currently poor households; the vulnerability index was found to be 0,62 compared to 0,56 headcount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009203051
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Factors Affecting Poverty Dynamics in Rural Zambia.
Chapoto, Antony; Banda, Diana J.; Haggblade, Steven; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty rates have declined, from 49% in 1991 to 34% in 2006. Redressing this high rural poverty rate remains a government priority in the National Development Programs. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220517
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Combating chronic poverty in Uganda: towards a new strategy
Ssewanyana, Sarah N. - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010
Using a panel of 3,572 households in the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) region interviewed in 2004 and in 2008, the paper provides new evidence on chronic poverty in Uganda. While progress in reducing poverty rates has been impressive from 64.6 percent to 52.2 percent, the levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008874637
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Tajikistan’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
Lerman, Zvi - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2011
. This paper provides a closer look at a set of variables that determine Tajikistan’s vulnerability to risk in general and to … conceptual introduction to vulnerability and discuss some quantitative approaches to vulnerability assessment that have been … quantitatively a range of basic variables that are recognized in the literature as determinants or drivers of vulnerability (Chapter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653908
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Drought Risk and Drought Response in Morocco: Vulnerability, Risk Perceptions and Drought Coping Among Rainfed Cereal Farmers
Lybbert, Travis J.; Kusunose, Yoko; Magnan, Nicholas; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012566