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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | WHY DOES POVERTY PERSIST IN RURAL ETHIOPIA?
Autores: | Bogale,   Ayalneh; Hagedorn,   Konrad; Korf,   Benedikt.
Data: | 2003-06-27
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Rural poverty; Livelihoods; Diversification; Ethiopia; Food Security and Poverty.
Resumo: | This paper seeks to address the question: why does poverty persist in rural Ethiopia? We argue that it is largely a lack of entitlements to fundamental livelihood assets which urges poor rural farmers into livelihood diversification to make a living. We base our findings on empirical work, which is based on information gathered from a three-round survey of 149 rural households in Ethiopia during 1999/2000 cropping season. The FGT poverty index is employed to examine the extent and severity of rural poverty and reveals that nearly 40% of the sample households live below poverty line with average poverty gap of 0.047. The binary logit estimates shed light on factors behind the persistence of poverty and indicates that rural poverty is strongly linked to entitlement failures to crucial assets such as land, human capital and oxen. The study also reveals that poor households attempt to smooth their consumption and income through livelihood diversification, among which petty trading, charcoal making and fuelwood gathering for sale, brewing and craftsmanship are the significant ones.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

10792

http://purl.umn.edu/25857

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

International Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2003 Annual Meeting, August 16-22, 2003, Durban, South Africa

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