Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty: Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011

Abstract

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

Nonfarm income and rural labor markets

“…The FtF impact evaluation dataset, collected in 2015, and the ERSS dataset, collected in 2014, are two large-scale datasets that are used to provide additional insight into the importance of offfarm income in rural areas. We also use the World Development Indicators data (World Bank 2014) on real national GDP and value-added in the agriculture, manufacturing, and services sectors in our analyses of the drivers of rural wages.2 Similarly, we use Zonal Poverty Head Count Index data obtained from Hill and Tsehaye (2018) in our investigation of the welfare implications of real wages.…”

“…In the econometric analyses we use the AGP baseline survey dataset. We complement this data with an urban dummy variable constructed from CSA's woreda population predictions (Ethiopia, CSA 2014) and zonal poverty head count (HC) index data from Hill and Tsehaye (2018).7 The variables used in the regression analyses are defined and the results provided in Table 11.8.…”

What is the Impact of Weather Shocks on Prices? : Evidence from Ethiopia

“…For a detailed description of the LEAP system, see Conway and Schipper (2011), and Balzer and Hess (2010). Analysis in Hill and Tsehaye (2014) also show that the rainfall-based yield loss estimates from LEAP are highly predictive of yields measured in the CSA's yield estimates using crop cutting and harvesting experiments.…”

Social determinants of health: poverty, national infrastructure and investment

“…They have invested in public services such as safety nets, roads and agricultural production 62. The Black Lion Hospital has partnered with Norwegian and American universities in order to establish an oncology training programme to increase the number of oncologists in Ethiopia 63.…”