Rural poverty and delayed presentation to tuberculosis services in Ethiopia

Is Poverty Really Falling in Rural Ethiopia?

It is generally believed that poverty in rural Ethiopia has fallen significantly since the early 1990s, thanks to improved governance and economic liberalisation policies. This paper presents several arguments that challenge this view. The first questions the methodological foundations of the panel survey data from which these positive trends are derived: we argue that the original sampling fra...

Epilepsy, poverty and early under-nutrition in rural Ethiopia

PURPOSE The incidence of epilepsy in Ethiopia is high compared with industrialised countries, but in most cases the cause of epilepsy is unknown. Childhood malnutrition remains widespread. We performed a case-control study to determine whether epilepsy is associated with poverty and markers of early under-nutrition. METHODS Patients with epilepsy (n=112), aged 18-45years, were recruited from ...

Growth and chronic poverty: Evidence from rural communities in Ethiopia

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 ...

Rural Infrastructure Services (RIS) for Poverty Reduction

Growing out of Poverty under Risk: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

The effect of risk on economic growth is a key issue in development but there is virtually no evidence on it and little clarity on what determines the effect. In this paper we use panel data for rural households in Ethiopia to estimate a structural model of household investment decisions under risk. The sample households are heterogeneous in terms of initial capital (livestock) and total factor...