The policies in Ethiopia to advance the commercial orientation of farmers need identification of challenges at farmer level and exhaustive actions to shift the farm sector. Further activities have to be done to change the country’s present subsistence-oriented farm production system of...

The economic reports on income inequality, poverty, and other welfare indicators are relevant if it was supported by the evidence of income traps because rural households in developing countries were frequently hit by several shocks. This study intended to investigate the households’...

The study sought to establish the level of technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies in irrigated onion production in southern Ethiopia, as well as to identify the sources of inefficiencies. The cross-sectional data were obtained from a total of 165 random onion farmers selected from the...

This paper attempted to analyses the dynamic relationship between the three development objectives: inequality, growth and poverty. Given the vast majority of the population (about 85 percent) is living in the rural area and poverty being higher in rural than in urban Ethiopia, the...

This paper attempts to assess the link between poverty and efficiency in Ethiopia. Based on 214 households drawn from eight Peasant Associations (PAs) from two zones in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State, the study measures the levels of poverty and efficiency, and assessed the...

This paper evaluates the impact of food prices inflation on consumption expenditure and poverty status using panel data of 1,078 rural households collected in 2004 and 2009 from four regional states in Ethiopia. The study revealed that the incidence of poverty was 37% in 2004 and increased to...