Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency

A decade and a half of relative peace and political stability, broad economic reforms, and far-reaching political decentralization have brought Ethiopia back from one of its lowest levels of income per capita to one of its highest levels over the past forty years. At the same time, Gross Domestic Pr...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Poverty Assessment
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/07/6297093/ethiopia-well-being-poverty-ethiopia-role-agriculture-agency
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8707
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spelling okr-10986-87072021-04-23T14:02:39Z Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency World Bank ACCESS TO SERVICES ADULT TRAINING AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ANNUAL GROWTH CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITA GROWTH COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY CONSUMPTION POVERTY DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMICS EDUCATED PEOPLE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT STATUS EXPENDITURE SURVEY FAMINE FERTILITY FOOD AID FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD SECURITY GDP GENDER INEQUALITIES GROWTH PATTERNS GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT HEALTH SURVEY HOUSEHOLD HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD HEAD ILLNESS IMPROVED ACCESS INCOME INCOME POVERTY LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE SURVEY LAND INEQUALITY LITERACY LONG RUN MALNUTRITION MARGINAL RETURNS MEDIUM TERM MONETARY TERMS NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NEGATIVE EFFECT NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS PARTICIPATORY POVERTY PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT PER CAPITA GROWTH POLICY ACTIONS POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY INTERVENTIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL STABILITY POPULATION SHARE POVERTY POVERTY DYNAMICS POVERTY GAP POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINES POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRO-POOR PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SPENDING PURCHASING POWER PARITY RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE RURAL AREAS RURAL ECONOMY RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY SAMPLE SURVEYS SECONDARY DATA SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE SECTOR SOCIAL GROUPS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TASK TEAM LEADER URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY A decade and a half of relative peace and political stability, broad economic reforms, and far-reaching political decentralization have brought Ethiopia back from one of its lowest levels of income per capita to one of its highest levels over the past forty years. At the same time, Gross Domestic Product per capita today is still only slightly above the levels reached in the early 1970 underscoring the deep-rooted and complex nature of poverty in Ethiopia. The positive developments at the macro level beg the questions of how well the Ethiopian people themselves fared during this period and what can be done to improve their lives further. These are the two overarching questions this study attempts to address, with a larger emphasis on analyzing the relative importance of the different determinants of people's well-being and their policy implications in light of the upcoming revision of Ethiopia's Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (SDPRP). In particular, the study seeks to identify areas of intervention to improve people's well-being and to provide the behavioral foundations for developing sector specific policies. For a comprehensive treatment of the challenges and opportunities related to the different sectors, the study refers to the World Bank Country Status Reports on Health, Education and Rural Development. 2012-06-21T20:14:07Z 2012-06-21T20:14:07Z 2005-07 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/07/6297093/ethiopia-well-being-poverty-ethiopia-role-agriculture-agency http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8707 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Economic & Sector Work Africa East Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Ethiopia
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topic ACCESS TO SERVICES
ADULT TRAINING
AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
ANNUAL GROWTH
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPITA GROWTH
COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY
CONSUMPTION POVERTY
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC REFORMS
ECONOMIC STUDIES
ECONOMICS
EDUCATED PEOPLE
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
EXPENDITURE SURVEY
FAMINE
FERTILITY
FOOD AID
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD SECURITY
GDP
GENDER INEQUALITIES
GROWTH PATTERNS
GROWTH RATES
HEADCOUNT
HEALTH SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
HOUSEHOLD HEAD
ILLNESS
IMPROVED ACCESS
INCOME
INCOME POVERTY
LABOR FORCE
LABOR FORCE SURVEY
LAND INEQUALITY
LITERACY
LONG RUN
MALNUTRITION
MARGINAL RETURNS
MEDIUM TERM
MONETARY TERMS
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NEGATIVE EFFECT
NUTRITION
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
PARTICIPATORY POVERTY
PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT
PER CAPITA GROWTH
POLICY ACTIONS
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
POLICY INTERVENTIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL STABILITY
POPULATION SHARE
POVERTY
POVERTY DYNAMICS
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY HEADCOUNT
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LEVELS
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY PROFILE
POVERTY REDUCING
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY STATUS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRO-POOR
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
PUBLIC SERVICE
PUBLIC SPENDING
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
RURAL AREAS
RURAL ECONOMY
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL POPULATION
RURAL POVERTY
SAMPLE SURVEYS
SECONDARY DATA
SERVICE DELIVERY
SERVICE SECTOR
SOCIAL GROUPS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TASK TEAM LEADER
URBAN AREAS
URBAN HOUSEHOLDS
URBAN POPULATION
URBAN POVERTY
spellingShingle ACCESS TO SERVICES
ADULT TRAINING
AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
ANNUAL GROWTH
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPITA GROWTH
COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY
CONSUMPTION POVERTY
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
ECONOMIC MEMORANDUM
ECONOMIC POLICY
ECONOMIC REFORMS
ECONOMIC STUDIES
ECONOMICS
EDUCATED PEOPLE
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
EXPENDITURE SURVEY
FAMINE
FERTILITY
FOOD AID
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD SECURITY
GDP
GENDER INEQUALITIES
GROWTH PATTERNS
GROWTH RATES
HEADCOUNT
HEALTH SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD DATA
HOUSEHOLD HEAD
ILLNESS
IMPROVED ACCESS
INCOME
INCOME POVERTY
LABOR FORCE
LABOR FORCE SURVEY
LAND INEQUALITY
LITERACY
LONG RUN
MALNUTRITION
MARGINAL RETURNS
MEDIUM TERM
MONETARY TERMS
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NEGATIVE EFFECT
NUTRITION
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
PARTICIPATORY POVERTY
PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT
PER CAPITA GROWTH
POLICY ACTIONS
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
POLICY INTERVENTIONS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL STABILITY
POPULATION SHARE
POVERTY
POVERTY DYNAMICS
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY HEADCOUNT
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LEVELS
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY PROFILE
POVERTY REDUCING
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY STATUS
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRO-POOR
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE REVIEW
PUBLIC INVESTMENT
PUBLIC SERVICE
PUBLIC SPENDING
PURCHASING POWER PARITY
RELATIVE IMPORTANCE
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
RURAL AREAS
RURAL ECONOMY
RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
RURAL POPULATION
RURAL POVERTY
SAMPLE SURVEYS
SECONDARY DATA
SERVICE DELIVERY
SERVICE SECTOR
SOCIAL GROUPS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TASK TEAM LEADER
URBAN AREAS
URBAN HOUSEHOLDS
URBAN POPULATION
URBAN POVERTY
World Bank
Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency
geographic_facet Africa
East Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia
description A decade and a half of relative peace and political stability, broad economic reforms, and far-reaching political decentralization have brought Ethiopia back from one of its lowest levels of income per capita to one of its highest levels over the past forty years. At the same time, Gross Domestic Product per capita today is still only slightly above the levels reached in the early 1970 underscoring the deep-rooted and complex nature of poverty in Ethiopia. The positive developments at the macro level beg the questions of how well the Ethiopian people themselves fared during this period and what can be done to improve their lives further. These are the two overarching questions this study attempts to address, with a larger emphasis on analyzing the relative importance of the different determinants of people's well-being and their policy implications in light of the upcoming revision of Ethiopia's Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (SDPRP). In particular, the study seeks to identify areas of intervention to improve people's well-being and to provide the behavioral foundations for developing sector specific policies. For a comprehensive treatment of the challenges and opportunities related to the different sectors, the study refers to the World Bank Country Status Reports on Health, Education and Rural Development.
format Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency
title_short Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency
title_full Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency
title_fullStr Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency
title_full_unstemmed Ethiopia : Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia, The Role of Agriculture and Agency
title_sort ethiopia : well-being and poverty in ethiopia, the role of agriculture and agency
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/07/6297093/ethiopia-well-being-poverty-ethiopia-role-agriculture-agency
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8707
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