A comparison of poverty in rural and urban Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon and Tadesse Mekonnen

Ethiopian Journal of Economics, 2002, vol. 08, issue 01, 98

Abstract: The paper compares poverty levels between rural and urban areas in Ethiopia using several methods of constructing a Poverty line. The finding suggest that generally speaking, difference in poverty between urban and rural area were on Average small, even though, especially in rural area, some areas were found to be extremely poor.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.250205

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