Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011
In the past 10 years, Ethiopia experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public goods provision to poor households, and saw impressive gains in well-being for many households. This paper exploits variation in sectoral growth and public go...
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okr-10986-295602021-06-08T14:42:45Z Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 Hill, Ruth Vargas Tsehaye, Eyasu POVERTY REDUCTION ECONOMIC GROWTH SAFETY NETS ACCESS TO SERVICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY CEREAL FARMERS WEATHER PUBLIC GOODS In the past 10 years, Ethiopia experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public goods provision to poor households, and saw impressive gains in well-being for many households. This paper exploits variation in sectoral growth and public goods provision across zones and time, to examine whether poverty reduction was driven by growth and provision of public goods and what type of growth -- growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or services -- was more effective at reducing poverty. The paper pays particular attention to controlling for other drivers of poverty reduction and instrumenting growth in a sector of particular policy focus -- agriculture -- to identify causal effects. The analysis finds that reductions in poverty were largest in places where agricultural output growth has been higher, safety nets have been introduced, and improvements in market access have been made. Agricultural output growth caused reductions in poverty of 2.2 percent per year on average post-2005, and 0.1 percent per year prior to 2005. The government's policy focus on stimulating productivity gains in smallholder cereal farmers contributed to this growth, but only when the weather was good, and prices were high. Access to markets was essential: agricultural growth reduced poverty in places close to urban centers, but not in remote parts of the country. 2018-03-30T18:37:58Z 2018-03-30T18:37:58Z 2018-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/644821522154723489/Growth-safety-nets-and-poverty-assessing-progress-in-Ethiopia-from-1996-to-2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29560 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8380 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ethiopia |
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POVERTY REDUCTION ECONOMIC GROWTH SAFETY NETS ACCESS TO SERVICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY CEREAL FARMERS WEATHER PUBLIC GOODS Hill, Ruth Vargas Tsehaye, Eyasu Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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In the past 10 years, Ethiopia
experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public
goods provision to poor households, and saw impressive gains
in well-being for many households. This paper exploits
variation in sectoral growth and public goods provision
across zones and time, to examine whether poverty reduction
was driven by growth and provision of public goods and what
type of growth -- growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or
services -- was more effective at reducing poverty. The
paper pays particular attention to controlling for other
drivers of poverty reduction and instrumenting growth in a
sector of particular policy focus -- agriculture -- to
identify causal effects. The analysis finds that reductions
in poverty were largest in places where agricultural output
growth has been higher, safety nets have been introduced,
and improvements in market access have been made.
Agricultural output growth caused reductions in poverty of
2.2 percent per year on average post-2005, and 0.1 percent
per year prior to 2005. The government's policy focus
on stimulating productivity gains in smallholder cereal
farmers contributed to this growth, but only when the
weather was good, and prices were high. Access to markets
was essential: agricultural growth reduced poverty in places
close to urban centers, but not in remote parts of the country. |
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Hill, Ruth Vargas Tsehaye, Eyasu |
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Hill, Ruth Vargas Tsehaye, Eyasu |
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Hill, Ruth Vargas |
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Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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Growth, Safety Nets and Poverty : Assessing Progress in Ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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growth, safety nets and poverty : assessing progress in ethiopia from 1996 to 2011 |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2018 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/644821522154723489/Growth-safety-nets-and-poverty-assessing-progress-in-Ethiopia-from-1996-to-2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29560 |
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