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A comparison of poverty in rural and urban Ethiopia

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  • Dercon, Stefan
  • Mekonnen, Tadesse

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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.

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  • Dercon, Stefan & Mekonnen, Tadesse, 2002. "A comparison of poverty in rural and urban Ethiopia," Ethiopian Journal of Economics, Ethiopian Economics Association, vol. 8(1), pages 1-98, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eeaeje:250205
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.250205
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    Cited by:

    1. Alem, Yonas, 2013. "Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Evidence from Urban Ethiopia," Working Papers in Economics 580, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
    2. Tesfaye Alemayehu Gebremedhin & Stephen Whelan, 2008. "Prices and Poverty in Urban Ethiopia 1," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 17(1), pages 1-33, January.
    3. Alem, Yonas & Köhlin, Gunnar & Stage, Jesper, 2014. "The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 51-61.
    4. Alem, Yonas, 2014. "Poverty Persistence and Intra-Household Heterogeneity in Occupations: Some Evidence from Ethiopia," RFF Working Paper Series dp-14-05-efd, Resources for the Future.

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    Food Security and Poverty;

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