Die Studie diskutiert die sozio-ökonomische Bedeutung von iddir, eines autochthonen informellen Versicherungssystems, das unter den Stadtbewohnern Äthiopiens populär, aber auch schon auf dem Land vertreten ist. Auf der Basis von empirischen Erhebungen in Addis Abeba werden die Verbindungen...

Informal Savings and Credit Association (ROSCAS) have remained popular in many developing countries for over a long period of time. In fact, in some countries, such as Ethiopia, they have become increasingly popular among almost all sections of society. However, their emerging features and...

"Accelerating growth and poverty reduction, and the ultimate achievement of structural transformation, are the critical policy challenges in present day Ethiopia. This paper examines relevant growth options in terms of their impact on overall growth and poverty reduction in the country. It...

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...

This study is motivated by the idea that even though participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is widely accepted as a tool to manage development programs to be effective, its application is widely constrained by its high start-up resource requirements in terms of both finance and time....

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...