Multidimensional poverty in Ethiopia: changes in overlapping deprivations

Alemayehu A. Ambel, Parendi Arafin Mehta, Biratu Yigezu, Alemayehu A. Ambel, Parendi Arafin Mehta and Biratu Yigezu
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No 7417, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper presents trends in monetary and nonmonetary dimensions of wellbeing in Ethiopia using data from the Household Consumption and Expenditure and Welfare Monitoring surveys implemented in 2000, 2005, and 2011. The paper provides evidence on changes in overlapping deprivations using a non-index approach to multidimensional poverty. It assesses the performance of various dimensions in education, health, and living standards, taking one indicator at a time. It then examines the overlap between different dimensions of poverty and examines how this has changed over time in Ethiopia and across rural and urban areas. It highlightsthat although Ethiopia?s multidimensional poverty index is very high, there have been improvements in overlapping deprivations and, as a result, the number of individuals deprived in multiple dimensions has fallen.

Keywords: Inequality; Health Care Services Industry; Educational Sciences; Water Supply and Sanitation Economics; Small Private Water Supply Providers; Environmental Engineering; Health and Sanitation; Water and Human Health; Town Water Supply and Sanitation; Sanitation and Sewerage; Engineering; Sanitary Environmental Engineering; Hydrology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09-22
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