Utility-Consistent Poverty in Ethiopia, 2000-11: Welfare Improvements in a Changing Economic Landscape

David Stifel and Tassew Woldehanna

No wp-2014-125, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the decade, and in rural areas in the latter half. Other monetary and non-monetary measures of well-being confirm the general pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of change in other measures.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Equality and inequality; Poverty; Regional economics; Welfare economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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