The persistence of urban poverty in Ethiopia: A tale of two measurements

Arne Bigsten () and Abebe Abebe

No 283, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates dynamics of poverty in urban Ethiopia using both subjective and objective definitions of poverty. The two sets of estimates of persistence and recurrence of poverty are similar, suggesting that consumption-based mobility estimates are not seriously distorted by measurement error.

Keywords: Subjective poverty; poverty spells; state dependence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2008-01-08
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