Ethiopia and Livelihoods
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- Ethiopian food security twenty years after famine
- A. Pankhurst; P. Bevan / ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004
- This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and na...
- Food-for-work programmes to promote sustainable land use
- S. Holden; C.B. Barrett; F. Hagos / Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004
- This paper assesses the potential of Food-For-Work (FFW) programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. The study uses empirical evidence and an applied bio-economic farm household model in northern Eth...
- Off-farm wage employment and income of rural households, Ethiopia
- S. Holden; B. Shiferaw; J. Pender / Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004
- This study looks at the impact of improved access to non-farm income on household welfare, agricultural production, conservation investments and land degradation in form of soil erosion. The results indicate that access to low-...
- Impact of food aid on different household members in Ethiopia
- A.R. Quisumbing / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This paper uses a unique panel data set from Ethiopia to examine the determinants of participation in and receipts of food aid through free distribution (FD) and food-for-work (FFW). It rejects the unitary model of the household and e...
- Do public transfers crowd out informal insurance arrangements?
- S. Dercon; P. Krishnan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2002
- This paper investigates public transfers in the form of food aid for farm households in Ethiopia to test for the presence of community risk-sharing arrangements. Findings include: both perfect risk-sharing and au...
- Economic reform brings pro-some-of-the-poor growth in Ethiopia
- S. Dercon; P. Krishnan / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2000
- This report summarises the activities and findings of a CSAE study which examined the consequences of the economic reform programme on poverty and survival strategies in Ethiopia since 1989, with an emphasis on the rural economy. ...
- Dynamics of chronic poverty and poverty alleviation programmes in Ethiopia
- F. Hagos / Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003
- This PhD thesis provides an econometric analysis of various aspects of the rural economy in Northern Ethiopia. The thesis consists of five papers: an in-depth analysis of poverty, its distribution, dynamics and i...
- Long term health effects of living through a drought
- S. Dercon; J. Hoddinott / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003
- This paper, published by World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), reviews the evidence on the impact of droughts and other serious “shocks” (transitory events which worsen the economic situation of a house...
- Land poor Ethiopians are unable to smooth their consumption over time: the need for informal credit
- D. Ayalew / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003
- This paper tests the role of informal risk-sharing networks by setting up a limited commitment model and using panel data on informal credit transactions from Ethiopia. Findings: enforcement problems limit the di...
- Food aid programs contribute to better consumption outcomes
- S. Dercon; P. Krishnan / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2003
- This paper looks into the extent to which food aid helps to smooth consumption by reducing the impact of negative shocks, taking into account informal risk-sharing arrangements. The paper asks two questions: what...
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