Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia

A forward-looking measure of “vulnerability to poverty” is estimated and a concerted effort is made to understand the sources of vulnerability in the drought-prone lowlands of Ethiopia. Using the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and the Wel...

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Main Authors:	Skoufias, Emmanuel, Vinha, Katja, Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	VULNERABILITY POVERTY DROUGHT CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY LOWLAND ECOSYSTEM AGRICULTURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876701612298436975/Quantifying-Vulnerability-to-Poverty-in-the-Drought-Prone-Lowlands-of-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35107

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spelling	okr-10986-351072022-09-20T00:10:04Z Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia Skoufias, Emmanuel Vinha, Katja Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen VULNERABILITY POVERTY DROUGHT CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY LOWLAND ECOSYSTEM AGRICULTURE A forward-looking measure of “vulnerability to poverty” is estimated and a concerted effort is made to understand the sources of vulnerability in the drought-prone lowlands of Ethiopia. Using the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and the Welfare Monitoring Survey of 2016, the analysis reveals that vulnerability is remarkably higher in the drought-prone lowlands than in the other ecological zones, although differences in poverty rates are modest; the vulnerability rate is more than two times larger than the poverty rate in the lowlands, while the ratio is only 1.6 for the whole country. The analysis also reveals important distinctions in the sources of vulnerability. In the drought-prone lowlands: (i) vulnerability due to aggregate shocks such as droughts is lower than vulnerability due to idiosyncratic shocks in absolute terms, but its relative importance is higher compared with other ecological zones; and (ii) poverty-induced vulnerability is relatively more important than risk-induced vulnerability in contrast to other regions where risk-induced vulnerability is higher than poverty-induced vulnerability. These findings attest to the unique nature of the drought-prone lowlands compared with the other agroecological zones and points in favor of policies and programs tailored specifically to the areas. 2021-02-04T17:19:16Z 2021-02-04T17:19:16Z 2021-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876701612298436975/Quantifying-Vulnerability-to-Poverty-in-the-Drought-Prone-Lowlands-of-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35107 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9534 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 Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Ethiopia
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spellingShingle	VULNERABILITY POVERTY DROUGHT CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEY LOWLAND ECOSYSTEM AGRICULTURE Skoufias, Emmanuel Vinha, Katja Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia
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description	A forward-looking measure of “vulnerability to poverty” is estimated and a concerted effort is made to understand the sources of vulnerability in the drought-prone lowlands of Ethiopia. Using the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey and the Welfare Monitoring Survey of 2016, the analysis reveals that vulnerability is remarkably higher in the drought-prone lowlands than in the other ecological zones, although differences in poverty rates are modest; the vulnerability rate is more than two times larger than the poverty rate in the lowlands, while the ratio is only 1.6 for the whole country. The analysis also reveals important distinctions in the sources of vulnerability. In the drought-prone lowlands: (i) vulnerability due to aggregate shocks such as droughts is lower than vulnerability due to idiosyncratic shocks in absolute terms, but its relative importance is higher compared with other ecological zones; and (ii) poverty-induced vulnerability is relatively more important than risk-induced vulnerability in contrast to other regions where risk-induced vulnerability is higher than poverty-induced vulnerability. These findings attest to the unique nature of the drought-prone lowlands compared with the other agroecological zones and points in favor of policies and programs tailored specifically to the areas.
format	Working Paper
author	Skoufias, Emmanuel Vinha, Katja Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen
author_facet	Skoufias, Emmanuel Vinha, Katja Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen
author_sort	Skoufias, Emmanuel
title	Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia
title_short	Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia
title_full	Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia
title_fullStr	Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed	Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia
title_sort	quantifying vulnerability to poverty in the drought-prone lowlands of ethiopia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876701612298436975/Quantifying-Vulnerability-to-Poverty-in-the-Drought-Prone-Lowlands-of-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35107
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Quantifying Vulnerability to Poverty in the Drought-Prone Lowlands of Ethiopia

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