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Growth and chronic poverty: Evidence from rural communities in Ethiopia

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  • Stefan Dercon
  • John Hoddinott and Tassew Woldehanna
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    What keeps some people persistently poor, even in the context of relative high growth?� In this paper, we explore this question using a 15-year longitudinal data set from Ethiopia.� We compare the findings of an empirical growth model with those derived from a model of the determinants of chronic poverty.� We ask whether the chronically poor are simply not benefiting in the same way from the same factors that allowed others to escape poverty, or whether there are latent factors that leave them behind?� We find that this chronic poverty is associated with several initial characteristics: lack of physical assets, education, and 'remoteness' in terms of distance to towns or poor roads.� The chronically poor appear to benefit from some of the drivers of growth, such as better roads or extension services in much the same way that the non-chronically poor benefit.� However, they appear to have lower growth in this period, related to time-invariant characteristics, and this suggests that they face a considerable growth and standard of living handicap.

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    Paper provided by University of Oxford, Department of Economics in its series Economics Series Working Papers with number WPS/2011-18.

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    Date of creation: 01 Sep 2011
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    1. Jonathan Temple, 1999. "The New Growth Evidence," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 37(1), pages 112-156, March.
    2. James E. Foster, 2007. "A Class of Chronic Poverty Measures," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0701, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.
    3. Stefan Dercon, 2004. "Growth and Shocks: evidence from rural Ethiopia," Development and Comp Systems 0409036, EconWPA.
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    1. Ambaye, Guesh Gebremeskel, 2012. "Perception of Poverty by Ethiopian Rural Households: Using a Self Reported approach," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 4(4), December.

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