Ethiopia and Livelihoods
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Addis Ababa - Population:
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1127127.0 Km2
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- Case studies of rural livelihood and natural resource governance issues
- K. Havnevik; T. Negash; A. Beyene / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006
- The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse...
- Implementation of a disaster prevention, employment-generating scheme in food insecure Ethiopia
- P. J. Middlebrook / Reliefweb, 2005
- Drought, poverty, famine and war are not new to Ethiopia. Much of Ethiopia's overseas aid has come in the form of humanitarian assistance rather than direct efforts to reduce poverty and elimate widespread hunger. This paper provides ...
- Being prepared for unexpected events can help prevent poverty
- Emmanuel Skoufias; Agnes Quisumbing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Economic shocks and other unexpected events, such as family illness or crop failure, can cause poor households to fall deeper into poverty. To cope with such crises, households may cut down on non-food consumption in order to maintain...
- Comprehensive social protection is a basic right of citizenship
- S. Devereaux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
- This presentation, made at a UNICEF conference, highlights critical issues in the intersections between rising HIV prevalence in Africa and growing interest in providing social protection, to fill the gaps where national social welfar...
- How can children be mainstreamed into national poverty strategies?: evidence from Ethiopia
- N. Jones; B. Gutema; B. Tefera; T. Woldehanna / Young Lives, 2005
- This paper assesses how the needs of children are incorporated into Ethiopia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), known as the Ethiopian Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Programme 2002-2005 (SDRDP), and to deve...
- How can cash transfers support vulnerable children in Eastern and Southern Africa?
- S. Devereux; J. Marshall; J. MacAskill; L. Pelham / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
- This study reviews unconditional cash transfers in 15 countries of east and southern Africa. It examines four programmes in more depth, in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zambia, with an emphasis on design issues such as cost-effect...
- Local urban centres are a vital component in wider rural development
- S. Dercon; J. Hoddinott / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- Contrary to the popular belief that rural and urban areas are essentially separate entities, this papers examines the important links that exist between the two. Despite the many potential benefits, the importance of local and regiona...
- How does differential access to productive assets affect inequalities in agricultural outcomes?
- R. Sabates-Wheeler / World Bank, 2005
- This paper reviews the literature on the relationships between inequality and agricultural growth. It emphasises the social and political constructions of inequalities, particularly inequality affects growth which in turn exacerbate a...
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
- Exploring the longer term effects of environmental shocks on households and livelihoods
- M. Carter; P. Little; T. Mogues; W. Negatu / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004
- This paper analyses the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks. It also investigates the circumstances under which poor households are pushed into poverty traps from which recove...
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