Causes of poverty in Ethiopia include a variety of actions stemming from natural disasters as well as man-made actions. However, the main causes of poverty in Ethiopia are brought on by the effects of its economy revolving around agriculture. Smallholder farmers form the largest group of poor people in Ethiopia.
These farmers lack basic infrastructure, socially and economically, such as health care and educational facilities. The poorest households have become poorer than they were in ; high food prices that improve incomes for many poor farmers make buying food more challenging for the poorest.
Despite improvements, Ethiopia still has relatively low rates of educational enrollment, access to sanitation, and attended births, and challenges remain around investment in the health, safety and education of women and girls. The majority of Ethiopian households are still engaged in agriculture and in living in rural areas. Policies that encourage further agglomeration through urbanization would help increase poverty reduction.
This will in turn require policies that favor the entry and growth of firms, in addition to support to self-employment in non-agricultural activities. Programs targeted to improving the wellbeing of the urban poor will also become increasingly important.
Read the full report here. Maura K. Leary Washington, DC Email. You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website? Ethiopia is making strides in poverty alleviation efforts. When compared to other African countries, only Uganda has seen higher poverty reduction between and According to the World Bank, agricultural growth has been the biggest driver in reducing poverty in Ethiopia.
Knowing this, country leaders drove initiatives to support agriculture. The National Agricultural Transformation Agency ATA , was created in for the purpose of identifying factors that limit agricultural growth and developing solutions and systems to support development projects.
The ATA has done just that, and agriculture has improved. Another contributor to poverty reduction in Ethiopia is the vast provision of safe water access, sanitation, and hygiene WASH access in the country. In , their call went further, demanding safe water access for all by in Sustainable Development Goal 6. In Ethiopia, governmental and nongovernmental organizations worked in concert to train communities in simple but life-saving health practices like handwashing, and safe water sources were constructed across the country.
Communities did the difficult work of adopting these health practices and helping to maintain their water source. As a result of poverty alleviation efforts of all types, the poverty rate has continued to fall. In , By , that number was at Families in Ethiopia are working to improve their lives.
With greater access to education, safe water, food security, and sanitation and hygiene practices, the population still living in poverty can make their way into the middle class. Your gift provides a clean water source, health training, and hope to families like Reurng living in East Africa and Cambodia.
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Box , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Box 21, Arba Minch, Ethiopia. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. The first author led the overall research process and revised all parts of the manuscript including abstract, introduction, econometrics model specification and interpretation of the manuscript preparation.
The second author participated in data collection and drafting of the preliminary result of the manuscript. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript. Correspondence to Sisay Debebe. Prior to data collection, the authors requested an official support letter from the university that explains the overall purpose of the study to all concerned district offices, and then the researcher gets the consent of all households for supplying the required data for the study.
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Finally, all participants including survey enumerators, supervisors, and key informants were provided adequate training for survey administration.
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Download PDF. Abstract Background Reduction of poverty and income inequality, and ensuring food security is the main goal of the Ethiopian government. Conclusion The study suggests strengthening the existing welfare-oriented strategies by undertaking intra-household resource allocations for women, encouraging participation of diversified business activities, promoting the use of family planning methods, strengthening formal education, microfinance institution and housing program by targeting impoverished households in the town.
Background Since , the Ethiopia government gave great emphasis on poverty reduction and aspires to ensure food security by maintaining stable income inequality in its five-year development plans over the last years [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Administrative map of Sawla town of Southern Ethiopia.
Full size image. Table 1 Sample selection with proportional allocation Full size table. Table 2 Definition of variables, measurement, descriptive statistics and hypotheses Full size table. Result and discussion Measurement of poverty and its determinants Poverty indices result The estimation of poverty line estimated using the [ 13 ] and [ 35 ] poverty classification benchmark criterion: consumption expenditure less than and birrs Ethiopian currency per month are classified as poor in food and total poverty, respectively.
Table 3 Summary of consumption expenditure between poor and non-poor Full size table. Table 4 Poverty incidence, depth, and severity of poverty Full size table.
Table 5 Binary logistic model result Full size table.
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