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Determinants of Poverty in Eritrea: A Household level Analysis

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Eyob Fissuh & Mark Harris

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This paper uses DOGEV model for modelling determinates of poverty in Eritrea by employing Eritrean Household Income and Expenditure Survey 1996/97 data. Education impacts welfare differently across poverty categories and there are pockets of poverty in the educated population sub group. Effect of household size is not the same across poverty categories. Contrary to the evidence in the literature the relationship between age and probability of being poor was found to be convex to the origin. Regional unemployment was found to be positively associated with poverty. Remittances, house ownership and access to sewage and sanitation facilities were found to be highly negatively related to poverty. This paper also finds out that there is captivity in poverty category and a significant correlation between poverty orderings which renders usage of standard multinomial/ordered logit in poverty analysis less defensible

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Paper provided by Econometric Society in its series Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings with number 364.

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Keywords: Poverty Eritrea Dogev Dogit and Ogev

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C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
O18 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses

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  1. Paul Makdissi & Dorothée Boccanfuso & Mathieu Audet, 2006. "The Geographic Determinants of Poverty in Albania," Cahiers de recherche 06-12, Departement d'Economique de la Faculte d'administration à l'Universite de Sherbrooke. [Downloadable!]
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