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

Arne Bigsten () and Abebe Abebe

Applied Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 18, issue 9, 835-839

Abstract: This article 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 or poverty persistence estimates are not seriously distorted by measurement error.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2010.503930

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