Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. We extend the classic Southworth (1945) framework to predict under what conditions this assumption holds.
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Structural change and poverty reduction in Ethiopia: Economy-wide analysis of the evolving role of agriculture
This paper explores these issues for Ethiopia utilizing an economy-wide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on a detailed social accounting matrix (SAM).
Ethiopia’s food systems are rapidly evolving, being driven by major contextual changes including high population growth, rapid urbanization, infrastructure investments, and income growth.
The impact of large-scale social protection interventions on grain prices in poor countries: Evidence from Ethiopia
There has long been concern that cash and in-kind transfers might affect prices in developing country food markets.
Using unique nationally representative household consumption data sets that extend from 1995/96 to 2010/11, this study looks at patterns and changes in ASF (animal-source food) consumption and attempts to identify some of the drivers of these dyna
Identifying priority value-chains in Ethiopia
This paper uses an economy-wide model to identify agricultural activities and value-chains in Ethiopia whose expansion would be most effective at generating economic growth, reducing national and rural poverty, creating jobs, and diversifying diet
Rural youth and employment in Ethiopia
This paper examines labor diversification in Ethiopia, focusing on youth, and explores current conditions that youth face in both the agricultural and non-farm labor markets.
Ethiopia’s economy is rapidly transforming. However, the extent to which this is affecting off-farm income and labor markets in rural areas is not well understood.
Food processing, transformation, and job creation: The case of Ethiopia’s enjera markets
Given the importance of agriculture in developing economies, food processing industries often dominate the industrial sector when considering employment and value addition in these settings.
Non-farm income and labor markets in rural Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s economy is rapidly transforming. However, the extent to which this is affecting off-farm income and labor markets in rural areas is not well understood.
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector has recorded remarkable rapid growth in the last decade. This note documents aspects of this growth process.
We estimate the impact of improved market access on household well-being and nutrition using a quasi-experimental setting in Ethiopia.
Diet transformation in Africa: The case of Ethiopia
Four rounds of nationally representative data from Ethiopia document changes in household food consumption patterns.
Centralized implementation mandates of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) require a full and uniform payment to each person in an eligible household.
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector has recorded remarkable rapid growth in the last decade. This paper documents aspects of this growth process.
We estimate the impact of improved market access on household well-being and nutrition using a quasi-experimental setting in Ethiopia.
Individuals’ aspirations and their consequences for future-oriented behavior have received increased attention in devel-opment economics literature in recent years.
On the back of both a global food crisis and various domestic factors, Ethiopia has experienced one of the world’s fastest rates of food inflation in recent years.