– Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
Gashaw Abate, Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen, Abdulazize Wolle - UNU-WIDER, 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by...
Adnan Abdulaziz Shahir, Francesco Figari - UNU-WIDER, 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia. Since 2020 the Ethiopian national team is based at the University of Insubria (Italy). It includes Adnan A. Shahir and Francesco Figari, responsible for the 2022 update of the model and this report.
The results presented...
Mari Kangasniemi, Jukka Pirttilä - UNU-WIDER, 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
Agricultural subsidies may have significant productive and distributional consequences, and policy-makers need to be able to assess these impacts as a part of the overall tax and benefit policy. Microsimulation models offer a tool for such analysis also in developing countries, but their coverage...
Despite the Ethiopian government’s commitment to attracting foreign direct investment to its emerging manufacturing sector and its shared interests with Chinese private businesses in building profitable investments, relations between Chinese private businesses and the Ethiopian government...
We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative quantitative and qualitative longitudinal analysis through the whole childhood of the individual into early adulthood, from age 8 up to age 25.
Multilevel survival analysis shows that...
Giorgia Giovannetti, Marco Sanfilippo, Arianna Vivoli - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade reforms on the changes and composition of...
Sandra Kristine Halvorsen - UNU-WIDER, 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
Manufacturing industry expansion is a central part of Ethiopia’s growth and transformation agenda due to its potential for accelerated economic development and large-scale job creation, in particular for women.
However, the industry is experiencing extremely high labour turnover rates,...
Matteo Fiorini, Marco Sanfilippo - UNU-WIDER, 2019 - Helsinki, Finland
We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation.
We use a novel geocoded dataset covering the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in road infrastructure on the creation, quality, and...
Nigussie Abadi, Ataklti Techane, Girmay Tesfay, Daniel Maxwell, Bapu Vaitla - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
While the volume of remittances to developing countries has been growing significantly over the years, the impact of remittances on food security has not received much attention. To bridge the gap this paper has examined the impact of remittances on farm household’s food security status,...
Andualem T. Mengistu, Kiflu G. Molla, Firew B. Woldeyes - UNU-WIDER, 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
View the latest ETMOD country report here.
This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia. This work was carried out by the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) in collaboration with the University of Essex and the Department of Economics at KU Leuven, with...
Maureen E Canavan, Marie A Brault, Dawit Tatek, Daniel Burssa, Ayele Teshome, Erika Linnander, Elizabeth H Bradley - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017 - Geneva, Switzerland
Lisa M Knowlton, Paulin Banguti, Smita Chackungal, Traychit Chanthasiri, Tiffany E Chao, Bernice Dahn, Milliard Derbew, Debashish Dhar, Micaela M Esquivel, Faye Evans, Simon Hendel, Drake G LeBrun, Michelle Notrica, Iracema Saavedra-Pozo, Ross Shockley, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Boualy Vannavong, Kelly A McQueen, David A Spain, Thomas G Weiser - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017 - Geneva, Switzerland
Lisa M. Knowlton, Paulin Banguti, Smita Chackungal, Traychit Chanthasiri, Tiffany E. Chao, Bernice Dahn, Milliard Derbew, Debashish Dhar, Micaela M. Esquivel, Faye Evans, Simon Hendel, Drake G. LeBrun, Michelle Notrica, Iracema Saavedra-Pozo, Ross Shockley, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Boualy Vannavong, Kelly A. McQueen, David A. Spain, Thomas G. Weiser - UNU-WIDER, 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
Methods: In 2010–2014, we used a situational analysis tool to collect data at district and regional hospitals in Bangladesh (n = 14), the Plurinational State of Bolivia (n = 18), Ethiopia (n = 19), Guatemala (n = 20), the Lao People...
Maureen E. Canavan, Marie A. Brault, Dawit Tatek, Daniel Burssa, Ayele Teshome, Erika Linnander, Elizabeth H. Bradley - UNU-WIDER, 2017 - Helsinki, Finland
Problem: Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in low- and middle-income countries, with poor quality of intrapartum care as a barrier to further progress.
Approach: We developed and tested a method of measuring the quality of maternal and neonatal care that could be embedded in a...