Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16

Ethiopia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while still strong, decelerated to 7.7 percent in FY2018. A slowdown in industrial growth, mainly driven by lower growth in construction due to foreign exchange shortages and higher prices of imp...

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spelling okr-10986-315032021-05-25T09:22:38Z Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16 World Bank ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK HOUSEHOLD WELFARE POVERTY CONSUMPTION LIVING STANDARDS Ethiopia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while still strong, decelerated to 7.7 percent in FY2018. A slowdown in industrial growth, mainly driven by lower growth in construction due to foreign exchange shortages and higher prices of imported construction materials, coupled with weaker performance of the manufacturing and the agriculture sectors, explains to a large extent the growth deceleration. Services sector exhibited strong growth in FY2018 while manufacturing underperformed. Poverty in Ethiopia deceased substantially over the past decade, although by less than what would have been expected based the country’s on strong economic growth. This special topic complements the government’s interim report on 2015-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016. 2019-04-08T14:52:55Z 2019-04-08T14:52:55Z 2019 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/432421554200542956/Special-Topic-Poverty-and-Household-Welfare-in-Ethiopia-2011-2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31503 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling Economic & Sector Work Africa Ethiopia
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ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
POVERTY
CONSUMPTION
LIVING STANDARDS
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LIVING STANDARDS
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Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16
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description Ethiopia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while still strong, decelerated to 7.7 percent in FY2018. A slowdown in industrial growth, mainly driven by lower growth in construction due to foreign exchange shortages and higher prices of imported construction materials, coupled with weaker performance of the manufacturing and the agriculture sectors, explains to a large extent the growth deceleration. Services sector exhibited strong growth in FY2018 while manufacturing underperformed. Poverty in Ethiopia deceased substantially over the past decade, although by less than what would have been expected based the country’s on strong economic growth. This special topic complements the government’s interim report on 2015-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016.
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title Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16
title_short Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16
title_full Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16
title_fullStr Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16
title_full_unstemmed Ethiopia Economic Update 7 : Special Topic - Poverty and Household Welfare in Ethiopia, 2011-16
title_sort ethiopia economic update 7 : special topic - poverty and household welfare in ethiopia, 2011-16
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publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/432421554200542956/Special-Topic-Poverty-and-Household-Welfare-in-Ethiopia-2011-2016
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