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  Poverty and survival strategies in Ethiopia during economic reform

  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.Based on a very detailed household panel data set, the study attempted to disentangle the effects of random events, such as good weather, from the effects of the reform
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  Food aid and child nutrition in rural Ethiopia

  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).
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  Risk sharing and public transfers

  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 autarky are rejected, suggesting partial risk-sharing using informal transfersthere is evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes
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  Poverty, institutions, peasant band conservation investment in Northern Ethiopia

  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 its correlates within the framework of the role of economic reforms on poverty reduction in a remote, unstable and environmentally troubled regionlooks at the issue of the effi
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  Farming assets in North Wälo: statistics, maps and impressions from a travel to North Wälo, October 2000

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2002

  The report is based on information collected in the aftermath of the 1999 famine. It presents some basic information on North Wälo, as well as relevant impressions from the authors journey. Statistics from the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission show that all of North Wälo is exposed to famine, but the picture varies much from year to year.
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  Food aid and informal insurance

  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 determines the allocation rule of food aid in Ethiopia?
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  Famine in Ethiopia: is food aid the answer?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  As the world geared up to provide fourteen million Ethiopians with the food aid needed to guarantee their survival, the question remains – why is there still such widespread hunger in Ethiopia? Have donors and the Ethiopian Government failed to address the root causes of the country’s perennial food insecurity?
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  Food security and emergencies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2003

  This paper addresses the continuing issue of food insecurity in Ethiopia.
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  Risk and vulnerability in Ethiopia: learning from the past, responding to the present, preparing for the future

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This paper aims to learn from the household survival strategies in Ethiopia that have evolved to manage diverse disaster hazards with a view that such strategies can inform more effective disaster preparedness, relief, recovery and prevention, policies and interventions.This report describes the systems that are in place that are designed for the early detection of crisis, the nature of humanit
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  Healing the scars? Tracing links between environment, food and conflict in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A University of Leeds collaborative study has probed links between environmental change and famine – two problems perceived to lie at the heart of Africa’s current crisis – in the context of another all too often linked to the continent - warfare and civil unrest.

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