Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia

Ayal Kimhi

No 47505, Discussion Papers from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management

Abstract: This paper uses inequality decomposition techniques in order to analyze the consequences of entrepreneurial activities to household income inequality in Southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita household income inequality. This implies that encouraging rural entrepreneurship may be favorable for both income growth and income distribution. Such policies could be particularly successful if directed at the low-income, low-wealth, and relatively uneducated segments of the society.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.47505

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